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From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
To: "Vedran Furač" <vedran.furac@gmail.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	minchan.kim@gmail.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Memory overcommit
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:12:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091030141250.GQ9640@random.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AEAEFDD.5060009@gmail.com>

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 02:53:33PM +0100, Vedran FuraA? wrote:
> % free -m
>           total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:      3458        3429         29          0        102       1119
> -/+ buffers/cache:    2207       1251
> 
> There's plenty of memory available. Shouldn't cache be automatically
> dropped (this question was in my original mail, hence the subject)?

This is not about cache, cache amount is physical, this about
virtual amount that can only go in ram or swap (at any later time,
current time is irrelevant) vs "ram + swap". In short add more swap if
you don't like overcommit and check grep Commit /proc/meminfo in case
this is accounting bug...

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-10-30 14:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <hav57c$rso$1@ger.gmane.org>
     [not found] ` <20091013120840.a844052d.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
     [not found]   ` <hb2cfu$r08$2@ger.gmane.org>
     [not found]     ` <20091014135119.e1baa07f.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
2009-10-20 21:52       ` Vedran Furač
2009-10-26  1:55         ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-10-26 16:16           ` Vedran Furač
2009-10-27  3:22             ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-10-27  6:10               ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-10-27  6:34                 ` Minchan Kim
2009-10-27  6:36                   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-10-27  6:55                     ` Minchan Kim
2009-10-27  7:45                       ` [RFC][PATCH] oom_kill: avoid depends on total_vm and use real RSS/swap value for oom_score (Re: " KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-10-27  7:56                         ` Minchan Kim
2009-10-27 12:38                           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2009-10-28  0:22                             ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-10-28  0:45                               ` Vedran Furač
2009-10-27  7:56                         ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-10-27  8:14                           ` Minchan Kim
2009-10-27  8:33                             ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-10-27  8:52                               ` Minchan Kim
2009-10-27  8:56                                 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-10-27 17:41                         ` Vedran Furač
2009-10-28  0:13                           ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-10-27 18:39                         ` Hugh Dickins
2009-10-27 18:47                           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2009-10-28  0:32                             ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-11-05 19:02                             ` Pavel Machek
2009-10-28  0:28                           ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-10-27  6:46                   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-10-27  6:56                     ` Minchan Kim
2009-10-27 17:12               ` Vedran Furač
2009-10-27 18:02                 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-10-27 18:30                   ` Vedran Furač
2009-10-27 20:44               ` Hugh Dickins
2009-10-27 21:04                 ` David Rientjes
2009-10-28  0:08                   ` Vedran Furač
2009-10-28  0:25                     ` David Rientjes
2009-10-28  0:39                       ` Vedran Furač
2009-10-28  4:08                         ` David Rientjes
2009-10-28  4:55                           ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-10-28  5:13                             ` David Rientjes
2009-10-28  6:05                               ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-10-28  6:17                                 ` David Rientjes
2009-10-28  6:20                                   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-10-29  8:38                                     ` David Rientjes
2009-10-29 11:11                                       ` Vedran Furač
2009-10-29 19:53                                         ` David Rientjes
2009-10-29 23:48                                           ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-10-30  9:10                                             ` David Rientjes
2009-10-30  9:36                                               ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-11-03 20:49                                                 ` David Rientjes
2009-11-04  0:50                                                   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-11-04  1:58                                                     ` David Rientjes
2009-11-04  2:17                                                       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-11-04  3:10                                                         ` David Rientjes
2009-11-04  3:19                                                           ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-10-30 13:59                                           ` Vedran Furač
2009-10-30 19:24                                             ` David Rientjes
2009-11-02 19:58                                               ` Vedran Furač
2009-10-28 13:28                           ` Vedran Furač
2009-10-28 20:10                             ` David Rientjes
2009-10-29  3:05                               ` Vedran Furač
2009-10-29  8:35                                 ` David Rientjes
2009-10-29 11:01                                   ` Vedran Furač
2009-10-29 19:42                                     ` David Rientjes
2009-10-30 13:53                                       ` Vedran Furač
2009-10-30 14:08                                         ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2009-10-30 15:13                                           ` Vedran Furač
2009-10-30 14:12                                         ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2009-10-30 14:41                                           ` Vedran Furač
2009-10-30 15:15                                             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2009-10-30 16:24                                               ` Hugh Dickins
2009-11-02 19:56                                               ` Vedran Furač
2009-10-30 19:44                                         ` David Rientjes
2009-11-02 19:56                                           ` Vedran Furač
2009-10-28  0:43                 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-10-28  2:47                 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-10-28  3:17                   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-10-28  4:12                   ` David Rientjes
2009-10-28  8:10                     ` Hugh Dickins

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