The OSDL can get you access to this size of machine.
Tim
On Sat, 2001-12-29 at 10:18, Harald Holzer wrote:
> Are there some i686 SMP systems with more then 12 GB ram out there ?
>
> Is there a known problem with 2.4.x kernel and such systems ?
>
> I have the following problem:
>
> A Intel SRPM8 Server with 32 GB ram and RH 7.2 and kernel 2.4.17 on it.
> After doing a lot of disc access the system slows down and the oom
> killer begins his work. (only after running some cp processes.)
> Because the system is running out of low memory.
>
> Disable the oom killer has no affect, the low memory is going to 0
> and the system dies.
>
> It looks like as the buffer_heads would fill the low memory up,
> whether there is sufficient memory available or not, as long as
> there is sufficient high memory for caching.
>
> Any ideas ?
>
> Here some information from /proc/meminfo and /proc/slabinfo some
> seconds before dying:
>
> total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
> Mem: 33781227520 10787348480 22993879040 0 21807104 10447962112
> Swap: 0 0 0
> MemTotal: 32989480 kB
> MemFree: 22454960 kB
> MemShared: 0 kB
> Buffers: 21296 kB
> Cached: 10203088 kB
> SwapCached: 0 kB
> Active: 27248 kB
> Inact_dirty: 10206312 kB
> Inact_clean: 0 kB
> Inact_target: 2046712 kB
> HighTotal: 32636928 kB
> HighFree: 22424128 kB
> LowTotal: 352552 kB
> LowFree: 30832 kB
> SwapTotal: 0 kB
> SwapFree: 0 kB
>
> slabinfo - version: 1.1 (statistics) (SMP)
> kmem_cache 112 112 284 8 8 1 : 112 112 8 0 0 : 124 62 : 12 9 0 0
> ip_fib_hash 145 145 24 1 1 1 : 145 145 1 0 0 : 252 126 : 8 3 0 0
> urb_priv 0 0 56 0 0 1 : 0 0 0 0 0 : 252 126 : 0 0 0 0
> journal_head 755 11591 56 49 173 1 : 11591 1255589 173 0 0 : 252 126 : 1271927 10219 1272001 9959
> revoke_table 169 169 20 1 1 1 : 169 169 1 0 0 : 252 126 : 0 3 0 0
> revoke_record 126 145 24 1 1 1 : 126 126 1 0 0 : 252 126 : 2 2 3 0
> clip_arp_cache 0 0 124 0 0 1 : 0 0 0 0 0 : 252 126 : 0 0 0 0
> ip_mrt_cache 0 0 84 0 0 1 : 0 0 0 0 0 : 252 126 : 0 0 0 0
> tcp_tw_bucket 0 0 128 0 0 1 : 0 0 0 0 0 : 252 126 : 0 0 0 0
> tcp_bind_bucket 561 580 24 4 4 1 : 561 561 4 0 0 : 252 126 : 4 11 0 0
> tcp_open_request 252 252 92 6 6 1 : 252 252 6 0 0 : 252 126 : 0 12 6 0
> inet_peer_cache 0 0 48 0 0 1 : 0 0 0 0 0 : 252 126 : 0 0 0 0
> ip_dst_cache 176 176 176 8 8 1 : 176 176 8 0 0 : 252 126 : 40 16 22 0
> arp_cache 64 64 120 2 2 1 : 64 64 2 0 0 : 252 126 : 0 4 1 0
> blkdev_requests 1056 1056 88 24 24 1 : 1056 1056 24 0 0 : 252 126 : 1128 48 256 0
> dnotify cache 0 0 28 0 0 1 : 0 0 0 0 0 : 252 126 : 0 0 0 0
> file lock cache 312 312 100 8 8 1 : 312 312 8 0 0 : 252 126 : 19870 16 19876 0
> fasync cache 0 0 24 0 0 1 : 0 0 0 0 0 : 252 126 : 0 0 0 0
> uid_cache 339 339 32 3 3 1 : 339 339 3 0 0 : 252 126 : 1 6 1 0
> skbuff_head_cache 2438 2438 168 106 106 1 : 2438 3950 106 0 0 : 252 126 : 3943 224 3035 12
> sock 129 129 1280 43 43 1 : 129 189 43 0 0 : 60 30 : 435 87 443 2
> sigqueue 252 252 140 9 9 1 : 252 252 9 0 0 : 252 126 : 1111 18 1118 0
> cdev_cache 702 702 48 9 9 1 : 702 702 9 0 0 : 252 126 : 145 18 5 0
> bdev_cache 354 354 64 6 6 1 : 354 354 6 0 0 : 252 126 : 20 12 23 0
> mnt_cache 224 224 68 4 4 1 : 224 224 4 0 0 : 252 126 : 7 7 2 0
> inode_cache 2224 2224 488 278 278 1 : 3872 4638 486 0 0 : 124 62 : 73933 984 72421 23
> dentry_cache 2732 3828 116 116 116 1 : 5181 7701 157 0 0 : 252 126 : 76421 333 74349 21
> dquot 0 0 112 0 0 1 : 0 0 0 0 0 : 252 126 : 0 0 0 0
> filp 578 578 112 17 17 1 : 578 578 17 0 0 : 252 126 : 397 34 0 0
> names_cache 18 18 4096 18 18 1 : 18 18 18 0 0 : 60 30 : 66979 36 66997 0
> buffer_head 2557740 2559882 104 69151 69186 1 : 2559882 3919926 69186 0 0 : 252 126 : 5029666 149166 2542612 10811
> mm_struct 216 216 144 8 8 1 : 216 216 8 0 0 : 252 126 : 1345 16 1317 0
> vm_area_struct 1724 1850 76 37 37 1 : 1850 7772 37 0 0 : 252 126 : 53909 121 53030 48
> fs_cache 588 588 44 7 7 1 : 588 588 7 0 0 : 252 126 : 1347 13 1320 0
> files_cache 171 171 424 19 19 1 : 171 171 19 0 0 : 124 62 : 1335 37 1320 0
> signal_act 162 162 1312 54 54 1 : 162 162 54 0 0 : 60 30 : 1305 103 1317 0
> pae_pgd 791 791 32 7 7 1 : 791 791 7 0 0 : 252 126 : 1346 14 1317 0
> size-131072(DMA) 0 0 131072 0 0 32 : 0 0 0 0 0 : 0 0 : 0 0 0 0
> size-131072 0 0 131072 0 0 32 : 0 0 0 0 0 : 0 0 : 0 0 0 0
> size-65536(DMA) 0 0 65536 0 0 16 : 0 0 0 0 0 : 0 0 : 0 0 0 0
> size-65536 0 0 65536 0 0 16 : 0 0 0 0 0 : 0 0 : 0 0 0 0
> size-32768(DMA) 0 0 32768 0 0 8 : 0 0 0 0 0 : 0 0 : 0 0 0 0
> size-32768 1 1 32768 1 1 8 : 1 2 1 0 0 : 0 0 : 0 0 0 0
> size-16384(DMA) 1 1 16384 1 1 4 : 1 1 1 0 0 : 0 0 : 0 0 0 0
> size-16384 1 1 16384 1 1 4 : 1 1 1 0 0 : 0 0 : 0 0 0 0
> size-8192(DMA) 0 0 8192 0 0 2 : 0 0 0 0 0 : 0 0 : 0 0 0 0
> size-8192 2 3 8192 2 3 2 : 3 41 3 0 0 : 0 0 : 0 0 0 0
> size-4096(DMA) 0 0 4096 0 0 1 : 0 0 0 0 0 : 60 30 : 0 0 0 0
> size-4096 207 237 4096 207 237 1 : 237 597 237 0 0 : 60 30 : 750 486 946 13
> size-2048(DMA) 0 0 2048 0 0 1 : 0 0 0 0 0 : 60 30 : 0 0 0 0
> size-2048 368 428 2048 194 214 1 : 428 2198 214 0 0 : 60 30 : 3169 487 3326 61
> size-1024(DMA) 0 0 1024 0 0 1 : 0 0 0 0 0 : 124 62 : 0 0 0 0
> size-1024 448 448 1024 112 112 1 : 448 448 112 0 0 : 124 62 : 1012 157 890 0
> size-512(DMA) 0 0 512 0 0 1 : 0 0 0 0 0 : 124 62 : 0 0 0 0
> size-512 520 520 512 65 65 1 : 520 520 65 0 0 : 124 62 : 460 115 116 0
> size-256(DMA) 0 0 264 0 0 1 : 0 0 0 0 0 : 124 62 : 0 0 0 0
> size-256 630 630 264 42 42 1 : 630 940 42 0 0 : 124 62 : 5914 82 5810 5
> size-128(DMA) 28 28 136 1 1 1 : 28 28 1 0 0 : 252 126 : 0 2 0 0
> size-128 868 868 136 31 31 1 : 868 869 31 0 0 : 252 126 : 2589 45 2374 0
> size-64(DMA) 0 0 72 0 0 1 : 0 0 0 0 0 : 252 126 : 0 0 0 0
> size-64 583 583 72 11 11 1 : 583 583 11 0 0 : 252 126 : 1200 19 975 0
> size-32(DMA) 92 92 40 1 1 1 : 92 92 1 0 0 : 252 126 : 16 2 0 0
> size-32 1384 2392 40 22 26 1 : 2392 2526 26 0 0 : 252 126 : 2569647 52 2568729 9
>
> Regards,
> Harald Holzer
>
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