> Recently, We had a similar issue. > http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg12243.html > But it seems to not merge. I don't know why since I didn't follow up the thread. > Maybe Cced guys can help you. > > Is it a sudden big cache drop at the moment or accumulated small cache > drop for long time? > What's your zones' size? > > Please attach the result of cat /proc/zoneinfo for others. If my remember is correct, 2.6.38 is included Mel's anti agressive reclaim patch. And original report seems to be using 2.6.37.x. John, can you try 2.6.38? _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs