From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail143.messagelabs.com (mail143.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.35]) by kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BF4CA6B0060 for ; Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:04:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from mt1.gw.fujitsu.co.jp ([10.0.50.74]) by fgwmail7.fujitsu.co.jp (Fujitsu Gateway) with ESMTP id mBF25REX013040 for (envelope-from kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com); Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:05:27 +0900 Received: from smail (m4 [127.0.0.1]) by outgoing.m4.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id E46A245DE53 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:05:26 +0900 (JST) Received: from s4.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (s4.gw.fujitsu.co.jp [10.0.50.94]) by m4.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD15245DE55 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:05:26 +0900 (JST) Received: from s4.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by s4.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35CC41DB8013 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:05:26 +0900 (JST) Received: from m105.s.css.fujitsu.com (m105.s.css.fujitsu.com [10.249.87.105]) by s4.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 715681DB8023 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:05:25 +0900 (JST) From: KOSAKI Motohiro Subject: Re: 2.6.28-rc8 big regression in VM In-Reply-To: <20081215011645.GA9707@localhost> References: <20081213095815.GA7143@ics.muni.cz> <20081215011645.GA9707@localhost> Message-Id: <20081215110231.00DF.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:05:24 +0900 (JST) Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Lukas Hejtmanek Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , linux-mm List-ID: Hi Lukas (cc to linux-mm) > On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 11:58:15AM +0200, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 09:21:15AM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote: > > > I cannot reproduce it on 2.6.28-rc7, compiling 2.6.28-rc8... > > > > > > # free; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches; free > > > total used free shared buffers cached > > > Mem: 1940 109 1831 0 0 42 > > > -/+ buffers/cache: 66 1873 > > > Swap: 0 0 0 > > > total used free shared buffers cached > > > Mem: 1940 62 1877 0 0 7 > > > -/+ buffers/cache: 55 1884 > > > Swap: 0 0 0 > > > > > > > once the whole memory is eaten by the cache, the system is pretty unusable. > > > > > > What's your kconfig? > > > > attached. I also don't reproduce your problem. Could you get output of "cat /proc/meminfo", not only free command? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org