On Thursday 09 July 2009, John Stoffel wrote: >>>>>> "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? Yes. >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. I am short approximately 500 megs according to top: Mem: 3634228k total, 3522984k used, 111244k free, 308096k buffers Swap: 8385912k total, 568k used, 8385344k free, 2544716k cached >From dmesg: [ 0.000000] TOM2: 0000000120000000 aka 4608M <what is this? [...] [ 0.000000] 2694MB HIGHMEM available. [ 0.000000] 887MB LOWMEM available. The bios signon does say 4092M IIRC. >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. I had been running the original bios, #1502, because 1604 and 1701 had very poor uptimes. 1502 caused an oops about 15 lines into the boot but that triggered a remap and it was bulletproof after that running a 32 bit 64G+PAE kernel. (I haven't quite made the jump to a 64 bit install, yet...) >> uname -a > >Linux sail 2.6.31-rc1 #6 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jun 24 21:40:33 EDT 2009 x86_64 > GNU/Linux Linux coyote.coyote.den 2.6.31-rc2 #4 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jul 8 09:37:15 EDT 2009 i686 athlon i386 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 MemTotal: 3634228 kB MemFree: 114312 kB Buffers: 309088 kB Cached: 2541864 kB SwapCached: 72 kB Active: 1584988 kB Inactive: 1739508 kB Active(anon): 354584 kB Inactive(anon): 120072 kB Active(file): 1230404 kB Inactive(file): 1619436 kB Unevictable: 100 kB Mlocked: 100 kB HighTotal: 2759560 kB HighFree: 13020 kB LowTotal: 874668 kB LowFree: 101292 kB SwapTotal: 8385912 kB SwapFree: 8385344 kB Dirty: 52 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 473576 kB Mapped: 111332 kB Slab: 143624 kB SReclaimable: 127820 kB SUnreclaim: 15804 kB PageTables: 8776 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB WritebackTmp: 0 kB CommitLimit: 10203024 kB Committed_AS: 1029032 kB VmallocTotal: 122880 kB VmallocUsed: 44180 kB VmallocChunk: 65924 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 HugePages_Surp: 0 Hugepagesize: 4096 kB DirectMap4k: 8184 kB DirectMap4M: 901120 kB Huge diffs it appears. ?? Thanks, John. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. <https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp> A Difficulty for Every Solution. -- Motto of the Federal Civil Service -- 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
