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Re: Strange swap growth/exhaustion

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Subject: Re: Strange swap growth/exhaustion
From: Alvaro R <askxfs@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 15:14:03 -0300
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Hi, thanks for all your responses.

Well, I was unable to find any process eating memory, my only suspect was
CA's Brightstore Agent, which was killed, but no memory was regained.

Since I have only plain Apache2 running (straight from SuSE rpms, and
that runs on all other blades with no problems), and the only thing
different on this server is XFS, I was worried that this was a
filesystem issue.

Attached is cat /proc/slabinfo, and meminfo, along with ps output.

I will upgrade the kernel to SuSE's release 151 today, maybe the beast
just needs rebooting.

Any hints are welcome, thanks.

PS - Another hint. I do have NFS running, forgot about that one..

Álvaro

On 6/11/05, Wendy Cheng <s_wendy_cheng@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I personally don't know SuSE distribution at all. However, look at your
> "HighFree", the high memory is really tight.  Assuming you have
> /proc/slabinfo file ? Cat it out to see what's going on with cache memory.
> Try to play around with the tunables in /proc/sys/vm to see whether they
> could help.
> 
> -- Wendy
> 
> alvaro@blade01:~> cat /proc/meminfo
> MemTotal:      2594792 kB
> MemFree:         73116 kB
> Buffers:         40520 kB
> Cached:        2347360 kB
> SwapCached:        220 kB
> Active:        1031532 kB
> Inactive:      1384416 kB
> HighTotal:     1703860 kB
> HighFree:         3712 kB
> LowTotal:       890932 kB
> LowFree:         69404 kB
> SwapTotal:     2097120 kB
> SwapFree:            0 kB
> Dirty:            1776 kB
> Writeback:           0 kB
> Mapped:          32948 kB
> Slab:            79368 kB
> Committed_AS:  2851264 kB
> PageTables:        672 kB
> VmallocTotal:   114680 kB
> VmallocUsed:     21712 kB
> VmallocChunk:    76392 kB
> HugePages_Total:     0
> HugePages_Free:      0
> Hugepagesize:     4096 kB
> 
> 
>

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