From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 22:49:59 -0700 From: "Martin J. Bligh" Reply-To: "Martin J. Bligh" Subject: Re: ZONE_NORMAL exhaustion (dcache slab) Message-ID: <2629107186.1035240598@[10.10.2.3]> In-Reply-To: <3DB4D20A.8A579516@digeo.com> References: <3DB4D20A.8A579516@digeo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Rik van Riel , linux-kernel , linux-mm mailing list List-ID: > Oh it's reproduceable OK. Just run > > make-teeny-files 7 7 Excellent - thanks for that ... will try it. > Maybe you didn't cat /dev/sda2 for long enough? Well, it's a multi-gigabyte partition. IIRC, I just ran it until it died with "input/output error" ... which I assumed at the time was the end of the partition, but it should be able to find that without error, so maybe it just ran out of ZONE_NORMAL ;-) > Perhaps we need to multiply the slab cache scanning pressure by the > slab occupancy. That's simple to do. That'd make a lot of sense (to me, at least). I presume you mean occupancy on a per-slab basis, not global. M. -- 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/