On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 08:53:23AM -0500, Dave Kleikamp wrote: > On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 08:36, John Goerzen wrote: > > know enough about the VM system to know what this all means. > > find requires a lot of inodes to be read, since it needs to stat each > file to see if it is a directory. Since the the VM isn't being asked to > do much else, it uses a lot of memory to cache the inodes. It is not > necessarily behaving badly, but I think you can adjust swappiness to > tune it to be more friendly to other apps. I don't claim to know much > about VM tuning, though.
I have tried cranking the swappiness way down, but it did not appear to make any difference. (BTW, 2.4 does not have this option, so it was only tested on my 2.6 machine) Interestingly, on the 2.6 box, I also observed similar starvation behavior, and similar slab numbers, while tar was running to back up the entire system. -- John _______________________________________________ Jfs-discussion mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/mailman/listinfo/jfs-discussion
