Nick Piggin wrote: > Hi, > > On Thursday 18 October 2007 16:24, Vasily Averin wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> could anybody explain how "inactive" may be much greater than "cached"? >> stress test (http://weather.ou.edu/~apw/projects/stress/) that writes into >> removed files in cycle puts the node to the following state: >> >> MemTotal: 16401648 kB >> MemFree: 636644 kB >> Buffers: 1122556 kB >> Cached: 362880 kB >> SwapCached: 700 kB >> Active: 1604180 kB >> Inactive: 13609828 kB >> >> At the first glance memory should be freed on file closing, nobody refers >> to file and ext3_delete_inode() truncates inode. We can see that memory is >> go away from "cached", however could somebody explain why it become >> "invalid" instead be freed? Who holds the references to these pages? > > Buffers, swap cache, and anonymous. But buffers and swap cache are low (1.1 Gb and 700kB in this example) and anonymous should go away when process finished. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
