On 3/28/14, 12:53 PM, Tap wrote: > I have a Linux CentOs-based (6.5) system, running Linux 3.10.29 > beneath xen 4.2.3-26 with a raid array as follows: <snip> > Anyway at some point the system had become unusable. Something as > simple as: > > find /raid -type f -- or -- ls -lR /raid > > Would walk the entire system out of RAM. Looking at slabtop it looks > like this is due mostly to xfs_inode memory usage. Note that since > these problems began I stopped running all sub-ordinate domains and > am now only running dom0. In fact I've allocated all 32 GB to that > domain, and memory problems still persist. Out of? Did the OOM-killer actually show up, or did you simply see memory usage rise? The dcache is tenacious. dentries are cached pretty aggressively, and those in turn will pin the vfs/xfs inodes. But memory is there to be used; unless you actually see problems, then the system is likely working as it should be. <snip> > Note: FWIW Un-mounting the filesystem also recovers the memory. Yep, that would clear out the cache. -Eric _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
