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

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