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Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 08:53:38 -0700
From: "Martin J. Bligh" <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
        Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net>
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Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.4 VM sucks. Again
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>> > How much RAM do you have, and what does /proc/meminfo
>> > and /proc/slabinfo say just before the explosion point?
>> 
>> I have 1 gig - highmem (not enabled) - 900 megs.
>> for what I can see, kernel can't reclaim buffers fast enough.
>> ut looks better on -aa.
>> 
> 
> What sort of setup. I can't duplicate the problem here ?

I'm not sure exactly what Roy was doing, but we were taking a machine
with 16Gb of RAM, and reading files into the page cache - I think we built up
8 million buffer_heads according to slabinfo ... on a P4 they're 128 bytes each,
on a P3 96 bytes.

M.