Messages in this thread | | | From | Sven Joachim <> | Subject | Re: v3.4-rc2 out-of-memory problems (was Re: 3.4-rc1 sticks-and-crashs) | Date | Mon, 09 Apr 2012 19:19:07 +0200 |
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On 2012-04-09 19:00 +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 7:33 PM, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> wrote: >>> Attaching these files, since I can't really make anything out of the >>> latter. Note that I started a few memory hogs (X, Firefox, Emacs with >>> Gnus), so overall memory footprint has grown to 768 MB. >> >> Looks like the "missing" 400MB is all in filesystem caches, >> specifically the dentry cache, the ext4 inode cache and >> buffer heads. >> >> That is perfectly fine, since those caches will be shrunk >> when the system needs memory. > > CONFIG_SLUB, right?
Actually, no. For some reason (probably historical…) I have CONFIG_SLAB.
> It will merge caches so you don't necessarily see > leaks in /proc/slabinfo. You can use "slub_nomerge" kernel parameter > to disable the merging.
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