<div>Hi,</div> <div> </div> <div> This particular server is 2.6.9-34.ELsmp (RedHat 4.0) as this is our production cluster and we did not update it recently.</div> <div> </div> <div>Regards,</div> <div>Luis<BR><BR><B><I>Sunil Mushran <Sunil.Mushran@oracle.com></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Hmmm... the last time I saw your numbers, ocfs2's foot print was 15M.<BR>You'll have to do better than that.<BR><BR>Anycase, Luis problem is the relationship between swap and cached buffers.<BR>Which kernel is this?<BR><BR>John Lange wrote:<BR>> It seems that ocfs has an unfixed memory leak even in the most recent<BR>> version.<BR>><BR>> I hope to make a more detailed bug report on Monday.<BR>><BR>> John<BR>><BR>> On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 15:31 -0800, Luis Freitas wrote:<BR>> <BR>>> Hi,<BR>>> <BR>>> This is a bit off
topic, hope there is not a problem.<BR>>> <BR>>> Anyone out there experiencing high swapping with the kernel<BR>>> retaining a large amount of buffers? This used to be a problem on 2.4,<BR>>> and I usually changed /proc/sys/vm/freepages to fix it. But on 2.6<BR>>> this parameter no longer exists.<BR>>> <BR>>> One of the servers here is holding over 3.5Gb of cache even when<BR>>> using over 700Mb of swap, and free memory is always low.<BR>>> <BR>>> [oracle@br001sv0432 ~]$ free<BR>>> total used free shared buffers<BR>>> cached<BR>>> Mem: 5190736 4810880 379856 0 143032<BR>>> 3583868<BR>>> -/+ buffers/cache: 1083980 4106756<BR>>> Swap: 2048248 723064 1325184<BR>>> [oracle@br001sv0432 ~]$<BR>>><BR>>> I am tuning /proc/sys/vm/swappiness, but this seems to have no<BR>>> effect at all. Changed from 60 to 10 and seems to have no effect. The<BR>>> server
runs Oracle RAC with OCFS2.<BR>>> <BR>>> Regards,<BR>>> Luis<BR>>> <BR>>> <BR>>><BR>>> ______________________________________________________________________<BR>>> Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate<BR>>> in the Yahoo! Answers Food & Drink Q&A.<BR>>> _______________________________________________<BR>>> Ocfs2-users mailing list<BR>>> Ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com<BR>>> http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-users<BR>>> <BR>><BR>><BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> Ocfs2-users mailing list<BR>> Ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com<BR>> http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-users<BR>> <BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Ocfs2-users mailing list<BR>Ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com<BR>http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-users<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p> 
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