Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 26 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > But the 2.6.11-rcX vm is still very > > > screwy, to get something close to nice and smooth behaviour I have to > > > run a fillmem every now and then to reclaim used memory. > > > > Can you provide more details? > > Hmm not really, I just seem to have a very large piece of > non-cache/buffer memory that seems reluctant to shrink on light memory > pressure.
If it's not pagecache then what is it? slab? > This makes the box feel sluggish, if I force reclaim by > running fillmem and swapping on/off again, it feels much better. before-n-after /proc/meminfo would be interesting. If you actually meant that is _is_ sticky pagecache then perhaps the recent mark_page_accessed() changes in filemap.c, although I'd be surprised. > I should mention that this is with 2.6.bk + andreas oom patches that he > asked me to test. I can try 2.6.11-rc2-bkX if you think I should. They shouldn't be causing this sort of thing. - 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/
