Greg KH wrote: > 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. >
I guess this one : https://sourceforge.net/projects/scanbuttond/ > thanks, > > greg k-h > - Gabriel - 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/
