On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 11:37 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > I'm worried that there are users out there experiencing real problems > > that aren't reporting it because "workarounds" like this just paper over > > the issue. > > For what it is worth. I had a friend ask me about a system that had 50% > of it's memory consumed by slab caches. 20GB out of 40GB. The kernel > was suse? 2.6.27 so it's old, but if you are curious. > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches does nothing in that case. Was it the reclaimable caches doing it, though? The other really common cause is kmalloc() leaks. -- Dave -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>