[Ocfs2-users] High on buffers and deep on swap

[John Lange]

It seems that ocfs has an unfixed memory leak even in the most recent
version.

I hope to make a more detailed bug report on Monday.

John

On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 15:31 -0800, Luis Freitas wrote:
> Hi,
>  
>    This is a bit off topic, hope there is not a problem.
>  
>    Anyone out there experiencing high swapping with the kernel
> retaining a large amount of buffers? This used to be a problem on 2.4,
> and I usually changed /proc/sys/vm/freepages to fix it. But on 2.6
> this parameter no longer exists.
>  
>     One of the servers here is holding over 3.5Gb of cache even when
> using over 700Mb of swap, and free memory is always low.
>  
> [oracle at br001sv0432 ~]$ free
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers
> cached
> Mem:       5190736    4810880     379856          0     143032
> 3583868
> -/+ buffers/cache:    1083980    4106756
> Swap:      2048248     723064    1325184
> [oracle at br001sv0432 ~]$
> 
>    I am tuning /proc/sys/vm/swappiness, but this seems to have no
> effect at all. Changed from 60 to 10 and seems to have no effect. The
> server runs Oracle RAC with OCFS2.
>  
> Regards,
> Luis
>  
>  
> 
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