On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 08:44:10PM -0400, Joel Fuster wrote: > Greg KH wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 11:56:44PM -0400, Joel Fuster wrote: >>> Joel Fuster wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> I am running 2.6.22.3. For reasons that escape me, over time (days) the >>>> sysfs_dir_cache, dentry, and inode_cache SLUB entries grow until they >>>> consume all the memory on my system, requiring a reboot. >> Hm, those items should consume all the memory, but it should be freed if >> you have memory pressure from other places. Does it cause the machine >> to lock up, or you just got scared when seeing them? > Right. The problem is that the memory never seems to get freed no matter > what I do. I've tried setting /proc/sys/vm/vfs_cache_pressure to 10000, > but after a few days all my programs are running out of swap and I have to > reboot to get things back to a usable state. > >> Oh, and does the same thing happen if you do not use SLUB, but rather >> the older SLAB? > > OK I just rebuilt 2.6.22.3 with SLAB and I seem to be getting the same > result..obviously I haven't waited several days, but > sysfs_dir_cache/dentry/inode_cache grow continuously when scanbuttond is > running, and stop growing when it isn't.
Do you have a pointer to the scanbuttond source code? I'll try to take a look at this tomorrow. thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
