On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 17:47, Andrew Morton wrote: > Badari Pulavarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > So, why is these slab cache are not getting purged/shrinked even > > under memory pressure ? (I have seen lowmem as low as 6MB). What > > can I do to keep the machine healthy ? > > Tried increasing /proc/sys/vm/vfs_cache_pressure? (That might not be in > 2.6.8 though). > >
Yep. This helped shrink the slabs, but we end up eating up lots of the lowmem in Buffers. Is there a way to shrink buffers ? $ cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 16377076 kB MemFree: 7495824 kB Buffers: 1081708 kB Cached: 4162492 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 3660756 kB Inactive: 4473476 kB HighTotal: 14548952 kB HighFree: 7489600 kB LowTotal: 1828124 kB LowFree: 6224 kB - 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/
