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Re: Memory and quota issues.

To: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Memory and quota issues.
From: Dana Soward <dragon@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 14:29:56 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17@xxxxxxxx>, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <200105152128.f4FLS0n08135@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
Here you go. FYI, it has only taken about 3.5 days to get to this
level of memory loss.  Thanks for the help.

slabinfo - version: 1.1
kmem_cache            80    117    100    3    3    1
ip_fib_hash           10    113     32    1    1    1
dqtrx                  1     20    192    1    1    1
dquots                39     44    356    4    4    1
ktrace_ent        126277 126280   1024 31570 31570    1
ktrace_hdr        126277 126412     20  748  748    1
xfs_chashlist       4538   6084     20   36   36    1
xfs_ili              700   5778    144  213  214    1
xfs_ifork              0      0     56    0    0    1
xfs_efi_item           0     15    260    0    1    1
xfs_efd_item           0     15    260    0    1    1
xfs_buf_item           4     26    152    1    1    1
xfs_dabuf              0    202     16    0    1    1
xfs_da_state           0     11    340    0    1    1
xfs_trans              1    156    320    1   13    1
xfs_inode         126273 126280    492 15785 15785    1
xfs_btree_cur          0     28    140    0    1    1
xfs_bmap_free_item      0      0     16    0    0    1
page_buf_t            19    360    160    1   15    1
page_buf_reg_t         4    113     32    1    1    1
avl_object_t           5    113     32    1    1    1
avl_entry_t            7    339     32    1    3    1
urb_priv               0      0     32    0    0    1
uhci_desc           1038   1062     64   18   18    1
ip_mrt_cache           0      0     96    0    0    1
tcp_tw_bucket          0     30    128    0    1    1
tcp_bind_bucket       13    113     32    1    1    1
tcp_open_request       0     40     96    0    1    1
inet_peer_cache        0      0     64    0    0    1
ip_dst_cache           5     20    192    1    1    1
arp_cache              2     30    128    1    1    1
nfs_read_data          0      0    384    0    0    1
nfs_write_data         0      0    384    0    0    1
nfs_page               0      0     96    0    0    1
blkdev_requests     2304   2320     96   58   58    1
dnotify cache          0      0     20    0    0    1
file lock cache        1     42     92    1    1    1
fasync cache           0      0     16    0    0    1
uid_cache              7    113     32    1    1    1
skbuff_head_cache    160    360    192   18   18    1
sock                  39     48    928   11   12    1
inode_cache       171286 209160    480 26144 26145    1
bdev_cache          3290   3304     64   56   56    1
sigqueue               0     29    132    0    1    1
kiobuf                19    343   1152    9   49    2
dentry_cache       89099 160770    128 5359 5359    1
dquot                  0      0     96    0    0    1
filp                 551    560     96   14   14    1
names_cache            0      2   4096    0    2    1
buffer_head         5252  45040     96  380 1126    1
mm_struct             45     60    128    2    2    1
vm_area_struct      1778   2006     64   33   34    1
fs_cache              44     59     64    1    1    1
files_cache           44     54    416    6    6    1
signal_act            48     54   1312   18   18    1
size-131072(DMA)       0      0 131072    0    0   32
size-131072            0      0 131072    0    0   32
size-65536(DMA)        0      0  65536    0    0   16
size-65536             9      9  65536    9    9   16
size-32768(DMA)        0      0  32768    0    0    8
size-32768             0      0  32768    0    0    8
size-16384(DMA)        0      0  16384    0    0    4
size-16384             3      4  16384    3    4    4
size-8192(DMA)         0      0   8192    0    0    2
size-8192              1      1   8192    1    1    2
size-4096(DMA)         0      0   4096    0    0    1
size-4096             47     47   4096   47   47    1
size-2048(DMA)         0      0   2048    0    0    1
size-2048             42     70   2048   23   35    1
size-1024(DMA)         0      0   1024    0    0    1
size-1024             44     48   1024   12   12    1
size-512(DMA)          0      0    512    0    0    1
size-512             314    320    512   40   40    1
size-256(DMA)          0      0    256    0    0    1
size-256            1020   1230    256   75   82    1
size-128(DMA)          0      0    128    0    0    1
size-128            4021   4800    128  159  160    1
size-64(DMA)           0      0     64    0    0    1
size-64            41097  45548     64  772  772    1
size-32(DMA)           0      0     32    0    0    1
size-32            26240  45313     32  356  401    1

On Tue, 15 May 2001, Steve Lord wrote:

> 
> Could you send the output of 
> 
>       cat /proc/slabinfo
> 
> This will tell us where the memory might be if it is in the kernel.
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> > This is the output of free.  It IS using it, its not cached.
> > 
> > fudd:/home# free -m
> >              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> > Mem:           374        371          3          0          0         28
> > -/+ buffers/cache:        342         32
> > Swap:          384          4        380
> > 
> > This is my partition layout aswell:
> > 
> > fudd:/home# df -h
> > Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part5
> >                       1.4G  157M  1.2G  12% /
> > /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
> >                        15M  7.7M  7.7M  50% /boot
> > /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part6
> >                       2.4G  1.3G  1.1G  52% /usr
> > /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part7
> >                       1.9G   98M  1.8G   6% /var
> > /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part9
> >                        27G   21G  6.2G  78% /home
> > 
> > All but / are xfs partitions.
> > 
> > Dana
> > 
> > On Tue, 15 May 2001, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, 15 May 2001 at 1:47pm, Dana Soward wrote
> > > 
> > > > Is anyone else having memory problems  with the CVS kernel?  Ive got a
> > > > server here with 384MB, and its using 325 of it right now.  It should be
> > > > using about 30, tops.  It *might* be something to do with debian woody,
> > > > but i wanna make sure no one else is having XFS issues.  Also, i cant 
> > > > see
> > m
> > > 
> > > Are you sure that all that memory is being used?  The 2.4 kernel is very
> > > aggressive when it comes to cacheing (which is a good thing).  What does
> > > the output of 'free' say?
> > > 
> > > In general, you *want* all your memory used up.  You just don't want
> > > running processes to be the ones using it all.
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Joshua Baker-LePain
> > > Department of Biomedical Engineering
> > > Duke University
> > > 
> 
> 


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