Hi We've been seeing some kernel memory leak behaviour in 2.6.20.11. After running for just over a week, one of our machines was showing almost all it's memory being used, even though we'd exited all the main services on the machine. The machine is a newish IBM x3550 with a Xeon 5130 processor and 12G of RAM. We're using a x86 kernel with PAE rather than x86_64, but haven't had a problem like this on other machines, though they are 8G and Prescott based. It's being used for cyrus IMAP serving and has about 35 reiserfs volumes mounted on it. The result after a week is that memory looks like this. [root@imap10 ~]$ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 12466708 11690804 775904 0 560060 714292 -/+ buffers/cache: 10416452 2050256 Swap: 2048276 49952 1998324 But a complete process list only shows. [root@imap10 ~]$ ps auxw USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1 0.0 0.0 1948 640 ? Ss Jul17 0:01 init [2] root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Jul17 0:03 [migration/0] root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SN Jul17 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0] root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Jul17 0:00 [watchdog/0] root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Jul17 0:01 [migration/1] root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SN Jul17 0:00 [ksoftirqd/1] root 7 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Jul17 0:00 [watchdog/1] root 8 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul17 0:00 [events/0] root 9 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul17 0:00 [events/1] root 10 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul17 0:00 [khelper] root 11 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul17 0:00 [kthread] root 117 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul17 0:00 [kblockd/0] root 118 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul17 0:00 [kblockd/1] root 119 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul17 0:00 [kacpid] root 228 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul17 0:00 [ata/0] root 229 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul17 0:00 [ata/1] root 230 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul17 0:00 [ata_aux] root 231 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul17 0:00 [kseriod] root 261 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul17 6:26 [kswapd0] root 262 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul17 0:00 [aio/0] root 263 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul17 0:00 [aio/1] root 913 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul17 0:00 [scsi_eh_0] root 914 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul17 0:00 [aacraid] root 937 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul17 0:00 [scsi_eh_1] root 1035 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul17 0:00 [scsi_eh_2] root 1131 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul17 0:00 [kpsmoused] root 1134 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Jul17 0:00 [kirqd] root 2326 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul17 0:00 [ksuspend_usbd] root 2329 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul17 0:00 [khubd] root 2686 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul17 0:03 [kjournald] root 2864 0.0 0.0 2180 612 ? S<s Jul17 0:00 udevd --daemon root 4573 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul17 0:54 [reiserfs/0] root 4574 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul17 0:46 [reiserfs/1] daemon 5023 0.0 0.0 1684 364 ? Ss Jul17 0:00 /sbin/portmap root 5140 0.0 0.0 1628 628 ? Ss Jul17 4:49 /sbin/syslogd root 5146 0.0 0.0 1580 396 ? Ss Jul17 0:00 /sbin/klogd -x 111 5168 0.0 0.0 2248 816 ? Ss Jul17 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system 112 5176 0.0 0.0 10432 8868 ? Ss Jul17 0:00 /usr/sbin/hald root 5177 0.0 0.0 2888 1036 ? S Jul17 0:00 hald-runner 112 5183 0.0 0.0 2020 844 ? S Jul17 0:00 hald-addon-acpi: listening on acpi kernel interface /proc/acpi/event root 5215 0.0 0.0 1812 624 ? S Jul17 0:00 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sda root 5221 0.0 0.0 1812 620 ? S Jul17 0:08 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/hda root 5229 0.0 0.0 1572 384 ? Ss Jul17 0:00 /usr/sbin/irqbalance root 5244 0.0 0.0 4928 1112 ? Ss Jul17 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd statd 5280 0.0 0.0 1760 728 ? Ss Jul17 0:00 /sbin/rpc.statd ntp 5293 0.0 0.0 4028 1220 ? Ss Jul17 0:00 /usr/sbin/ntpd -p /var/run/ntpd.pid -u 110:109 -g root 5362 0.0 0.0 6692 4948 ? Ss Jul17 0:02 /usr/sbin/munin-node root 5402 0.0 0.0 1576 496 tty1 Ss+ Jul17 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty1 root 5404 0.0 0.0 1576 496 tty2 Ss+ Jul17 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty2 root 5405 0.0 0.0 1576 496 tty3 Ss+ Jul17 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty3 root 5406 0.0 0.0 1572 492 tty4 Ss+ Jul17 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty4 root 5408 0.0 0.0 1576 496 tty5 Ss+ Jul17 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty5 root 5410 0.0 0.0 1572 492 tty6 Ss+ Jul17 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty6 root 5411 0.0 0.0 2640 1272 ? Ss Jul17 0:00 /bin/sh /command/svscanboot root 5436 0.0 0.0 1596 356 ? S Jul17 0:00 svscan /service root 5438 0.0 0.0 1420 248 ? S Jul17 0:00 readproctitle service errors: ..................................................................... root 5449 0.0 0.0 1432 300 ? S Jul17 0:00 supervise dnscache root 5450 0.0 0.0 1432 304 ? S Jul17 0:00 supervise log dnslog 5456 0.0 0.0 1576 368 ? S Jul17 0:07 multilog t ./main root 6189 0.0 0.0 1432 304 ? S Jul17 0:00 supervise backupcyrusd root 6223 0.0 0.0 1428 300 ? S Jul17 0:00 supervise popschedule root 6243 0.0 0.0 1428 300 ? S Jul17 0:00 supervise postfixpolicyproxy root 6252 0.0 0.0 1432 304 ? S Jul17 0:00 supervise rated root 6288 0.0 0.0 1428 300 ? S Jul17 0:00 supervise vfsd root 6323 0.0 0.0 1428 300 ? S Jul17 0:00 supervise vfsproxy root 6407 0.0 0.0 1428 300 ? S Jul17 0:00 supervise notifyd root 13463 0.0 0.0 2224 896 pts/3 R+ 02:40 0:00 ps auxw root 26582 0.0 0.0 7484 2148 ? Ss 02:31 0:00 sshd: root@pts/0 root 26586 0.0 0.0 2840 1688 pts/0 Ss+ 02:31 0:00 -bash root 29155 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Jul25 0:18 [pdflush] root 29700 0.0 0.0 7640 2164 ? Ss 02:32 0:00 sshd: root@pts/1 root 29704 0.0 0.0 2840 1692 pts/1 Ss+ 02:32 0:00 -bash root 30012 0.0 0.0 7488 2152 ? Ss 02:32 0:00 sshd: root@pts/3 root 30016 0.0 0.0 2836 1656 pts/3 Ss 02:32 0:00 -bash root 30402 0.1 0.0 0 0 ? S Jul25 1:15 [pdflush] This is pretty much a vanilla kernel, with just one patch to work around a deadlock problem in the reiserfs_file_write code that I think isn't fixed. http://lists.linuxcoding.com/kernel/2006-q1/msg32508.html The patch basically bypasses all the code to use do_sync_write. We haven't noticed it as a performance issue. I haven't tested if the deadlock problem has been fixed since 2.6.16, but with this patch there definitely isn't a problem, so we haven't been particularly keen to find out. --- linux-2.6.19.2/fs/reiserfs/file.c 2006-11-29 16:57:37.000000000 -0500 +++ linux-2.6.19.2-syncwrite/fs/reiserfs/file.c 2007-02-02 01:01:36.000000000 -0500 @@ -1358,6 +1358,8 @@ if (file->f_flags & O_DIRECT) return do_sync_write(file, buf, count, ppos); + return do_sync_write(file, buf, count, ppos); + if (unlikely((ssize_t) count < 0)) return -EINVAL; One other thing that is probably relevant, is that we saw some of these error messages in the dmesg log. BUG: at fs/reiserfs/inode.c:2868 reiserfs_releasepage() [<c0199ecb>] reiserfs_releasepage+0xa3/0xa8 [<c0199e28>] reiserfs_releasepage+0x0/0xa8 [<c013c8e9>] try_to_release_page+0x2c/0x40 [<c0141386>] pagevec_strip+0x52/0x54 [<c0141fa0>] shrink_active_list+0x2c0/0x3d1 [<c0142b33>] shrink_zone+0xd8/0xf5 [<c014307c>] kswapd+0x322/0x423 [<c012b4e4>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x37 [<c0142d5a>] kswapd+0x0/0x423 [<c012b362>] kthread+0xae/0xd3 [<c012b2b4>] kthread+0x0/0xd3 [<c010383b>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x1c ======================= [root@imap10 proc]$ dmesg | grep fs/reiserfs/inode.c | wc -l 38 All of them show basically the same trace as above. There's a dump of the kernel config available here: http://robm.fastmail.fm/kernel/2007-07-26/config.txt Here's a dump of just about everything from /proc that I thought might be useful [root@imap10 ~]$ cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 12466708 kB MemFree: 739752 kB Buffers: 560436 kB Cached: 754096 kB SwapCached: 4540 kB Active: 9878988 kB Inactive: 1594924 kB HighTotal: 11663148 kB HighFree: 725192 kB LowTotal: 803560 kB LowFree: 14560 kB SwapTotal: 2048276 kB SwapFree: 1998324 kB Dirty: 130036 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 12828 kB Mapped: 4396 kB Slab: 223012 kB SReclaimable: 192724 kB SUnreclaim: 30288 kB PageTables: 636 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB CommitLimit: 8281628 kB Committed_AS: 79208 kB VmallocTotal: 118776 kB VmallocUsed: 24536 kB VmallocChunk: 93532 kB [root@imap10 ~]$ cat /proc/slabinfo slabinfo - version: 2.1 # name <active_objs> <num_objs> <objsize> <objperslab> <pagesperslab> : tunables <limit> <batchcount> <sharedfactor> : slabdata <active_slabs> <num_slabs> <sharedavail> ip_fib_alias 8 113 32 113 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 1 1 0 ip_fib_hash 8 113 32 113 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 1 1 0 jbd_4k 0 0 4096 1 1 : tunables 24 12 8 : slabdata 0 0 0 uhci_urb_priv 0 0 28 127 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 0 0 0 rpc_buffers 8 8 2048 2 1 : tunables 24 12 8 : slabdata 4 4 0 rpc_tasks 8 20 192 20 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 1 1 0 rpc_inode_cache 0 0 448 9 1 : tunables 54 27 8 : slabdata 0 0 0 UNIX 20 36 448 9 1 : tunables 54 27 8 : slabdata 4 4 0 ip_conntrack_expect 0 0 96 40 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 0 0 0 ip_conntrack 65 684 212 18 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 38 38 0 xt_hashlimit 0 0 64 59 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 0 0 0 flow_cache 0 0 128 30 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 0 0 0 aic94xx_ascb 0 0 128 30 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 0 0 0 aic94xx_dma_token 0 0 16 203 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 0 0 0 scsi_cmd_cache 45 96 320 12 1 : tunables 54 27 8 : slabdata 8 8 6 sas_task 0 0 320 12 1 : tunables 54 27 8 : slabdata 0 0 0 cfq_ioc_pool 0 0 92 42 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 0 0 0 cfq_pool 0 0 96 40 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 0 0 0 mqueue_inode_cache 1 7 576 7 1 : tunables 54 27 8 : slabdata 1 1 0 udf_inode_cache 0 0 400 10 1 : tunables 54 27 8 : slabdata 0 0 0 nfs_write_data 36 36 448 9 1 : tunables 54 27 8 : slabdata 4 4 0 nfs_read_data 32 36 448 9 1 : tunables 54 27 8 : slabdata 4 4 0 nfs_inode_cache 0 0 604 6 1 : tunables 54 27 8 : slabdata 0 0 0 nfs_page 0 0 64 59 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 0 0 0 isofs_inode_cache 0 0 372 10 1 : tunables 54 27 8 : slabdata 0 0 0 ext2_inode_cache 0 0 472 8 1 : tunables 54 27 8 : slabdata 0 0 0 ext2_xattr 0 0 48 78 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 0 0 0 journal_handle 3 169 20 169 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 1 1 0 journal_head 323 720 52 72 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 9 10 228 revoke_table 2 254 12 254 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 1 1 0 revoke_record 0 203 16 203 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 0 1 0 ext3_inode_cache 1127 1296 500 8 1 : tunables 54 27 8 : slabdata 162 162 0 ext3_xattr 0 0 48 78 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 0 0 0 reiser_inode_cache 21496 40833 428 9 1 : tunables 54 27 8 : slabdata 4537 4537 0 dnotify_cache 1 169 20 169 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 1 1 0 eventpoll_pwq 0 0 36 101 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 0 0 0 eventpoll_epi 0 0 128 30 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 0 0 0 inotify_event_cache 0 0 28 127 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 0 0 0 inotify_watch_cache 1 92 40 92 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 1 1 0 kioctx 0 0 192 20 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 0 0 0 kiocb 0 0 192 20 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 0 0 0 fasync_cache 0 0 16 203 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 0 0 0 shmem_inode_cache 1587 1701 440 9 1 : tunables 54 27 8 : slabdata 189 189 0 posix_timers_cache 0 0 88 44 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 0 0 0 uid_cache 5 59 64 59 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 1 1 0 ip_mrt_cache 0 0 128 30 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 0 0 0 UDP-Lite 0 0 512 7 1 : tunables 54 27 8 : slabdata 0 0 0 tcp_bind_bucket 11 203 16 203 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 1 1 0 inet_peer_cache 0 0 64 59 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 0 0 0 secpath_cache 0 0 32 113 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 0 0 0 xfrm_dst_cache 0 0 320 12 1 : tunables 54 27 8 : slabdata 0 0 0 ip_dst_cache 33 90 256 15 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 6 6 0 arp_cache 7 80 192 20 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 4 4 0 RAW 3 7 512 7 1 : tunables 54 27 8 : slabdata 1 1 0 UDP 3 7 512 7 1 : tunables 54 27 8 : slabdata 1 1 0 tw_sock_TCP 8 30 128 30 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 1 1 0 request_sock_TCP 0 0 64 59 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 0 0 0 TCP 6 28 1152 7 2 : tunables 24 12 8 : slabdata 4 4 0 sgpool-128 32 33 2560 3 2 : tunables 24 12 8 : slabdata 11 11 0 sgpool-64 34 42 1280 3 1 : tunables 24 12 8 : slabdata 13 14 1 sgpool-32 32 36 640 6 1 : tunables 54 27 8 : slabdata 6 6 0 sgpool-16 33 36 320 12 1 : tunables 54 27 8 : slabdata 3 3 0 sgpool-8 38 80 192 20 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 4 4 0 scsi_io_context 0 0 104 37 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 0 0 0 blkdev_ioc 6 127 28 127 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 1 1 0 blkdev_queue 18 20 952 4 1 : tunables 54 27 8 : slabdata 5 5 0 blkdev_requests 153 294 184 21 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 14 14 0 biovec-256 7 8 3072 2 2 : tunables 24 12 8 : slabdata 4 4 0 biovec-128 7 10 1536 5 2 : tunables 24 12 8 : slabdata 2 2 0 biovec-64 8 15 768 5 1 : tunables 54 27 8 : slabdata 3 3 0 biovec-16 8 20 192 20 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 1 1 0 biovec-4 9 59 64 59 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 1 1 0 biovec-1 305 1015 16 203 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 5 5 228 bio 544 780 128 30 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 24 26 228 sock_inode_cache 40 80 384 10 1 : tunables 54 27 8 : slabdata 8 8 0 skbuff_fclone_cache 2 24 320 12 1 : tunables 54 27 8 : slabdata 2 2 0 skbuff_head_cache 338 1100 192 20 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 55 55 0 file_lock_cache 15 80 96 40 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 2 2 0 Acpi-Operand 873 1012 40 92 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 11 11 0 Acpi-ParseExt 0 0 44 84 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 0 0 0 Acpi-Parse 0 0 28 127 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 0 0 0 Acpi-State 0 0 44 84 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 0 0 0 Acpi-Namespace 275 338 20 169 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 2 2 0 proc_inode_cache 410 1133 360 11 1 : tunables 54 27 8 : slabdata 103 103 0 sigqueue 2 27 144 27 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 1 1 0 radix_tree_node 31584 49751 288 13 1 : tunables 54 27 8 : slabdata 3827 3827 0 bdev_cache 47 63 512 7 1 : tunables 54 27 8 : slabdata 9 9 0 sysfs_dir_cache 7146 7224 44 84 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 86 86 0 mnt_cache 55 60 128 30 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 2 2 0 inode_cache 1976 2145 344 11 1 : tunables 54 27 8 : slabdata 195 195 0 dentry_cache 21496 52925 132 29 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 1825 1825 0 filp 578 3460 192 20 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 173 173 7 names_cache 13 18 4096 1 1 : tunables 24 12 8 : slabdata 13 18 0 idr_layer_cache 123 145 136 29 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 5 5 0 buffer_head 2744886 2769914 56 67 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 41342 41342 0 mm_struct 57 135 448 9 1 : tunables 54 27 8 : slabdata 15 15 0 vm_area_struct 962 7832 88 44 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 178 178 0 fs_cache 57 354 64 59 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 6 6 0 files_cache 57 190 384 10 1 : tunables 54 27 8 : slabdata 19 19 0 signal_cache 91 210 384 10 1 : tunables 54 27 8 : slabdata 21 21 0 sighand_cache 85 111 1344 3 1 : tunables 24 12 8 : slabdata 37 37 0 task_struct 87 135 1312 3 1 : tunables 24 12 8 : slabdata 45 45 0 anon_vma 568 11430 12 254 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 45 45 0 pgd 43 678 32 113 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 6 6 0 pmd 136 140 4096 1 1 : tunables 24 12 8 : slabdata 136 140 0 pid 91 808 36 101 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 8 8 0 size-131072(DMA) 0 0 131072 1 32 : tunables 8 4 0 : slabdata 0 0 0 size-131072 0 0 131072 1 32 : tunables 8 4 0 : slabdata 0 0 0 size-65536(DMA) 0 0 65536 1 16 : tunables 8 4 0 : slabdata 0 0 0 size-65536 5 5 65536 1 16 : tunables 8 4 0 : slabdata 5 5 0 size-32768(DMA) 0 0 32768 1 8 : tunables 8 4 0 : slabdata 0 0 0 size-32768 0 0 32768 1 8 : tunables 8 4 0 : slabdata 0 0 0 size-16384(DMA) 0 0 16384 1 4 : tunables 8 4 0 : slabdata 0 0 0 size-16384 2 2 16384 1 4 : tunables 8 4 0 : slabdata 2 2 0 size-8192(DMA) 0 0 8192 1 2 : tunables 8 4 0 : slabdata 0 0 0 size-8192 82 82 8192 1 2 : tunables 8 4 0 : slabdata 82 82 0 size-4096(DMA) 0 0 4096 1 1 : tunables 24 12 8 : slabdata 0 0 0 size-4096 861 861 4096 1 1 : tunables 24 12 8 : slabdata 861 861 0 size-2048(DMA) 0 0 2048 2 1 : tunables 24 12 8 : slabdata 0 0 0 size-2048 385 490 2048 2 1 : tunables 24 12 8 : slabdata 245 245 0 size-1024(DMA) 0 0 1024 4 1 : tunables 54 27 8 : slabdata 0 0 0 size-1024 231 252 1024 4 1 : tunables 54 27 8 : slabdata 63 63 0 size-512(DMA) 0 0 512 8 1 : tunables 54 27 8 : slabdata 0 0 0 size-512 974 1072 512 8 1 : tunables 54 27 8 : slabdata 134 134 0 size-256(DMA) 0 0 256 15 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 0 0 0 size-256 312 390 256 15 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 26 26 0 size-128(DMA) 0 0 128 30 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 0 0 0 size-128 9025 19890 128 30 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 663 663 0 size-64(DMA) 0 0 64 59 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 0 0 0 size-32(DMA) 0 0 32 113 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 0 0 0 size-64 2326 3776 64 59 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 64 64 0 size-32 6302 10509 32 113 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 93 93 0 kmem_cache 132 150 128 30 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 5 5 0 [root@imap10 proc]$ cat cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 15 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 5130 @ 2.00GHz stepping : 6 cpu MHz : 2000.233 cache size : 4096 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 0 cpu cores : 2 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 10 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr dca lahf_lm bogomips : 4002.50 clflush size : 64 processor : 1 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 15 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 5130 @ 2.00GHz stepping : 6 cpu MHz : 2000.233 cache size : 4096 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 1 cpu cores : 2 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 10 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr dca lahf_lm bogomips : 4000.20 clflush size : 64 [root@imap10 proc]$ cat buddyinfo Node 0, zone DMA 56 7 4 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 Node 0, zone Normal 1336 256 49 10 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 Node 0, zone HighMem 99524 12603 1252 537 330 190 109 48 25 9 11 [root@imap10 proc]$ cat modules i2c_i801 10124 0 - Live 0xf8836000 i2c_core 19584 1 i2c_i801, Live 0xf8863000 ehci_hcd 27276 0 - Live 0xf885b000 uhci_hcd 21136 0 - Live 0xf8854000 usbcore 108680 3 ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd, Live 0xf88d1000 [root@imap10 proc]$ cat zoneinfo Node 0, zone DMA pages free 958 min 17 low 21 high 25 active 61 inactive 273 scanned 0 (a: 15 i: 11) spanned 4096 present 4064 nr_anon_pages 0 nr_mapped 1 nr_file_pages 334 nr_slab_reclaimable 1086 nr_slab_unreclaimable 87 nr_page_table_pages 0 nr_dirty 31 nr_writeback 0 nr_unstable 0 nr_bounce 0 nr_vmscan_write 602820 protection: (0, 873, 13192) pagesets all_unreclaimable: 0 prev_priority: 12 start_pfn: 0 Node 0, zone Normal pages free 2696 min 936 low 1170 high 1404 active 94885 inactive 44918 scanned 0 (a: 0 i: 0) spanned 225280 present 223520 nr_anon_pages 0 nr_mapped 0 nr_file_pages 139803 nr_slab_reclaimable 47095 nr_slab_unreclaimable 7339 nr_page_table_pages 0 nr_dirty 14349 nr_writeback 0 nr_unstable 0 nr_bounce 0 nr_vmscan_write 13211869 protection: (0, 0, 98552) pagesets cpu: 0 pcp: 0 count: 144 high: 186 batch: 31 cpu: 0 pcp: 1 count: 47 high: 62 batch: 15 vm stats threshold: 16 cpu: 1 pcp: 0 count: 150 high: 186 batch: 31 cpu: 1 pcp: 1 count: 60 high: 62 batch: 15 vm stats threshold: 16 all_unreclaimable: 0 prev_priority: 12 start_pfn: 4096 Node 0, zone HighMem pages free 180803 min 128 low 3432 high 6737 active 2380717 inactive 348144 scanned 0 (a: 0 i: 0) spanned 3178496 present 3153664 nr_anon_pages 3210 nr_mapped 1080 nr_file_pages 190150 nr_slab_reclaimable 0 nr_slab_unreclaimable 0 nr_page_table_pages 151 nr_dirty 6 nr_writeback 0 nr_unstable 0 nr_bounce 0 nr_vmscan_write 107132 protection: (0, 0, 0) pagesets cpu: 0 pcp: 0 count: 114 high: 186 batch: 31 cpu: 0 pcp: 1 count: 6 high: 62 batch: 15 vm stats threshold: 32 cpu: 1 pcp: 0 count: 113 high: 186 batch: 31 cpu: 1 pcp: 1 count: 3 high: 62 batch: 15 vm stats threshold: 32 all_unreclaimable: 0 prev_priority: 12 start_pfn: 229376 [root@imap10 proc]$ cat vmstat nr_anon_pages 3210 nr_mapped 1081 nr_file_pages 330287 nr_slab_reclaimable 48181 nr_slab_unreclaimable 7424 nr_page_table_pages 151 nr_dirty 14386 nr_writeback 0 nr_unstable 0 nr_bounce 0 nr_vmscan_write 13921821 pgpgin 917158683 pgpgout 290273636 pswpin 1761 pswpout 52912 pgalloc_dma 5981840 pgalloc_normal 349519350 pgalloc_high 1144800149 pgfree 1500486435 pgactivate 326397897 pgdeactivate 185125484 pgfault 2978836583 pgmajfault 19685544 pgrefill_dma 3247880 pgrefill_normal 148534853 pgrefill_high 34856904 pgsteal_dma 2619431 pgsteal_normal 164677731 pgsteal_high 7200844 pgscan_kswapd_dma 4957748 pgscan_kswapd_normal 196582656 pgscan_kswapd_high 7473632 pgscan_direct_dma 14745 pgscan_direct_normal 644320 pgscan_direct_high 0 pginodesteal 39523 slabs_scanned 172962176 kswapd_steal 174009805 kswapd_inodesteal 296683999 pageoutrun 3316600 allocstall 7437 pgrotated 1675389 I tried doing a block_dump and a swapoff to see if it made any difference as well: [root@imap10 vm]$ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 12466708 11728876 737832 0 560548 756064 -/+ buffers/cache: 10412264 2054444 Swap: 2048276 49952 1998324 [root@imap10 vm]$ echo 1 > block_dump [root@imap10 vm]$ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 12466708 11728876 737832 0 560548 756064 -/+ buffers/cache: 10412264 2054444 Swap: 2048276 49952 1998324 [root@imap10 vm]$ swapoff -a [root@imap10 vm]$ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 12466708 11774016 692692 0 560572 806912 -/+ buffers/cache: 10406532 2060176 Swap: 0 0 0 After reboot [root@imap10 ~]$ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 12466708 180848 12285860 0 8464 16648 -/+ buffers/cache: 155736 12310972 Swap: 2048276 0 2048276 [root@imap10 ~]$ ps auxw USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1 0.3 0.0 1944 636 ? Ss 02:51 0:01 init [2] root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 02:51 0:00 [migration/0] root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SN 02:51 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0] root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 02:51 0:00 [watchdog/0] root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 02:51 0:00 [migration/1] root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SN 02:51 0:00 [ksoftirqd/1] root 7 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 02:51 0:00 [watchdog/1] root 8 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 02:51 0:00 [events/0] root 9 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 02:51 0:00 [events/1] root 10 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 02:51 0:00 [khelper] root 11 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 02:51 0:00 [kthread] root 117 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 02:51 0:00 [kblockd/0] root 118 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 02:51 0:00 [kblockd/1] root 119 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 02:51 0:00 [kacpid] root 228 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 02:51 0:00 [ata/0] root 229 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 02:51 0:00 [ata/1] root 230 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 02:51 0:00 [ata_aux] root 231 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 02:51 0:00 [kseriod] root 259 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 02:51 0:00 [pdflush] root 260 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 02:51 0:00 [pdflush] root 261 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 02:51 0:00 [kswapd0] root 262 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 02:51 0:00 [aio/0] root 263 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 02:51 0:00 [aio/1] root 913 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 02:52 0:00 [scsi_eh_0] root 914 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 02:52 0:00 [aacraid] root 937 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 02:52 0:00 [scsi_eh_1] root 1035 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 02:52 0:00 [scsi_eh_2] root 1147 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 02:52 0:00 [kpsmoused] root 1150 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 02:52 0:00 [kirqd] root 2377 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 02:52 0:00 [ksuspend_usbd] root 2378 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 02:52 0:00 [khubd] root 2828 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 02:52 0:00 [kjournald] root 3006 0.0 0.0 2184 620 ? S<s 02:52 0:00 udevd --daemon root 5385 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 02:55 0:00 [reiserfs/0] root 5386 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 02:55 0:00 [reiserfs/1] daemon 5644 0.0 0.0 1684 364 ? Ss 02:55 0:00 /sbin/portmap root 5762 0.0 0.0 1628 612 ? Ss 02:55 0:00 /sbin/syslogd root 5768 0.0 0.0 1576 380 ? Ss 02:55 0:00 /sbin/klogd -x 111 5790 0.0 0.0 2252 812 ? Ss 02:55 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system 112 5798 1.7 0.0 10596 8988 ? Ss 02:56 0:00 /usr/sbin/hald root 5799 0.0 0.0 2892 1036 ? S 02:56 0:00 hald-runner 112 5805 0.0 0.0 2016 840 ? S 02:56 0:00 hald-addon-acpi: listening on acpi kernel interface /proc/acpi/event root 5853 0.0 0.0 1808 624 ? S 02:56 0:00 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sda root 5859 0.0 0.0 1808 620 ? S 02:56 0:00 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/hda root 5867 0.0 0.0 1572 384 ? Ss 02:56 0:00 /usr/sbin/irqbalance root 5882 0.0 0.0 4928 1112 ? Ss 02:56 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd statd 5918 0.0 0.0 1756 724 ? Ss 02:56 0:00 /sbin/rpc.statd ntp 5931 0.0 0.0 4024 1204 ? Ss 02:56 0:00 /usr/sbin/ntpd -p /var/run/ntpd.pid -u 110:109 -g root 6000 0.0 0.0 6696 4956 ? Ss 02:56 0:00 /usr/sbin/munin-node root 6043 0.0 0.0 1576 496 tty1 Ss+ 02:56 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty1 root 6045 0.0 0.0 1576 492 tty2 Ss+ 02:56 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty2 root 6046 0.0 0.0 1576 496 tty3 Ss+ 02:56 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty3 root 6048 0.0 0.0 1576 496 tty4 Ss+ 02:56 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty4 root 6049 0.0 0.0 1576 496 tty5 Ss+ 02:56 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty5 root 6051 0.0 0.0 1576 496 tty6 Ss+ 02:56 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty6 root 6052 0.0 0.0 2644 1276 ? Ss 02:56 0:00 /bin/sh /command/svscanboot root 6079 0.0 0.0 1596 352 ? S 02:56 0:00 svscan /service root 6080 0.0 0.0 1424 248 ? S 02:56 0:00 readproctitle service errors: ..................................................................... root 6088 0.0 0.0 1428 296 ? S 02:56 0:00 supervise dnscache root 6089 0.0 0.0 1428 296 ? S 02:56 0:00 supervise log dnscache 6091 0.3 0.7 99552 98248 ? S 02:56 0:00 /usr/bin/dnscache dnslog 6092 0.0 0.0 1440 292 ? S 02:56 0:00 multilog t ./main root 6351 0.0 0.0 7488 2152 ? Ss 02:56 0:00 sshd: root@pts/0 root 6355 0.0 0.0 2828 1640 pts/0 Ss+ 02:56 0:00 -bash root 6363 0.0 0.0 7488 2148 ? Ss 02:56 0:00 sshd: root@pts/1 root 6367 0.0 0.0 2832 1644 pts/1 Ss 02:56 0:00 -bash root 6383 0.0 0.0 2220 892 pts/1 R+ 02:56 0:00 ps auxw Any help appreciated. Rob ---------- robm@xxxxxxxxxxx Sign up at http://fastmail.fm for fast, ad free, IMAP accessible email - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe reiserfs-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html