Re: [BENCHMARK] vm swappiness with contest

From: Andrew Morton (akpm@digeo.com)
Date: Tue Dec 31 2002 - 01:08:59 EST


Con Kolivas wrote:
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> On Saturday 28 Dec 2002 5:16 pm, Con Kolivas wrote:
> > Is there something about the filesystem layer or elsewhere in the kernel
> > that could decay or fragment over time that only a reboot can fix? This
> > would seem to be a bad thing.
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> Ok Linus suggested I check slabinfo before and after.
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> I ran contest for a few days till I recreated the problem and it did recur. I
> don't know how to interpret the information so I'll just dump it here:
>

Looks OK. Could we see /proc/meminfo and /proc/vmstat?

What filesystem are you using? And what kernel?
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