On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 13:42, John Goerzen wrote: > On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 01:16:51PM -0500, Dave Kleikamp wrote: > > > sendsize.20040628190003.debug:sendsize[21127]: time 3337.219: /bin/tar: > > > ./src/ke > > > rnel-source-2.6.6/arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin: Warning: Cannot > > > seek to > > > 0: Bad file descriptor > > > > > > Strange, eh? > > > > Yes, it is strange. Is that file otherwise accessible? > > Yes.
Then I really don't understand it. > Vanilla 2.4.26 plus vserver patch. That's pretty current. :^) > Why is it that updatedb would cause things to swap out? It shouldn't be > using much RAM. Do we have a bug in the VM system where it > over-aggressively maximizes cache size? I've observed, that jfs's inode cache grows really big. Look at the jfs_ip entry in /proc/slabinfo. The behavior is tunable with /proc/sys/vm/swappiness. I'm not a vm expert, but I found this, which explains it better than I could: http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3000 -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center _______________________________________________ Jfs-discussion mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/mailman/listinfo/jfs-discussion
