>>>>> "Gene" == Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: Gene> On Wednesday 08 July 2009, Wu Fengguang wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 01:15:15PM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote: >>> On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 11:42:07PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: Gene> [...] >>> I guess your near 800MB slab cache is somehow under scanned. >> >> Gene, can you run .31 with this patch? When OOM happens, it will tell >> us whether the majority slab pages are reclaimable. Another way to >> find things out is to run `slabtop` when your system is moderately loaded. Gene> Its been running continuously, and after 24 hours is now showing: Just wondering, is this your M2N-SLI Deluxe board? I've got the same board, with 4Gb of RAM and I haven't noticed any loss of RAM from my looking (quickly) at top output. But I also haven't bothered to upgrade the BIOS on this board at all since I got it back in March of 2008. No need in my book so far. > uname -a Linux sail 2.6.31-rc1 #6 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jun 24 21:40:33 EDT 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux > cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 3987068 kB MemFree: 170608 kB Buffers: 355272 kB Cached: 2034416 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 1836284 kB Inactive: 1482444 kB Active(anon): 857076 kB Inactive(anon): 86112 kB Active(file): 979208 kB Inactive(file): 1396332 kB Unevictable: 3972 kB Mlocked: 3972 kB SwapTotal: 0 kB SwapFree: 0 kB Dirty: 36 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 933160 kB Mapped: 141188 kB Slab: 398124 kB SReclaimable: 348212 kB SUnreclaim: 49912 kB PageTables: 30916 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB WritebackTmp: 0 kB CommitLimit: 1993532 kB Committed_AS: 1570980 kB VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB VmallocUsed: 116160 kB VmallocChunk: 34359584603 kB DirectMap4k: 4992 kB DirectMap2M: 4188160 kB -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-testers" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
