On 2/3/2013 12:35 AM, Linda Walsh wrote: > Odd thing about my current probs -- my current system has been > up 12 days...but before that it had been up 43 days... Linux greer 3.2.6 #1 SMP Mon Feb 20 17:05:10 CST 2012 i686 GNU/Linux 10:13:13 up 339 days, 22:42, 1 user, load average: 0.06, 0.06, 0.05 This is a hand rolled 'minimalist' kernel with the old SLAB allocator, no modules, Debian 6 atop. Just over 11 months of flawless operation, though load is probably much lighter than on your system. > I can't get the buffers to 'free' no matter what > echo 3> /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches does nothing. That's interesting. > so I may be rebooting soon... Did you roll this 3.7.1 yourself? I'm wondering if you did something wonky in your config that's causing or contributing to your problems. -- Stan _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs