From: Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@genband.com>
To: Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: mmap vs fs cache
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2013 08:47:47 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5139FA13.8090305@genband.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5139B214.3040303@symas.com>
On 03/08/2013 03:40 AM, Howard Chu wrote:
> There is no way that a process that is accessing only 30GB of a mmap
> should be able to fill up 32GB of RAM. There's nothing else running on
> the machine, I've killed or suspended everything else in userland
> besides a couple shells running top and vmstat. When I manually
> drop_caches repeatedly, then eventually slapd RSS/SHR grows to 30GB and
> the physical I/O stops.
Is it possible that the kernel is doing some sort of automatic
readahead, but it ends up reading pages corresponding to data that isn't
ever queried and so doesn't get mapped by the application?
Chris
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-08 14:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <5136320E.8030109@symas.com>
2013-03-07 15:43 ` Jan Kara
2013-03-08 2:08 ` Johannes Weiner
2013-03-08 7:46 ` Howard Chu
2013-03-08 8:42 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-03-08 9:40 ` Howard Chu
2013-03-08 14:47 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2013-03-08 15:00 ` Howard Chu
2013-03-08 15:25 ` Chris Friesen
2013-03-08 16:16 ` Johannes Weiner
2013-03-08 20:04 ` Howard Chu
2013-03-11 12:04 ` Jan Kara
2013-03-11 12:40 ` Howard Chu
2013-03-09 3:28 ` Ric Mason
2013-03-09 1:22 ` Phillip Susi
2013-03-11 11:52 ` Jan Kara
2013-03-11 15:03 ` Phillip Susi
2013-03-09 2:34 ` Ric Mason
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