What is this machine used for? 110 MB of cache is pretty much a waste of storage. If the machine eats into all (or most) of that before it finally croaks, then you have a memory hog or leak somewhere.
I've seen that happen with WebSphere and it turned out to be an application problem. The cache will slowly get released to a certain point, then paging will begin and the paging/cacheing dance will begin. When the page device fills and the cache is gone then your up the creek... On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 09:25, James Melin wrote: > I've got a linux guest that is pushing the wall, 17 megs free and dropping. > Swapping is going to be inevitable. The problem is that the memory usage > growth is slow, and that cache grows to 110 meg before we start to approach > the wall. Will SLES8 start to release or clean the cache before swapping > becomes rampant? > > <vent_spleen> > > Since there seems to be no way to control the cache in SLES8, which really > sucks since, in our situation, it is caching unimportant things. None of > the application data is local. If there are any of the Linux Kernal > developers monitoring this list, add my voice to those that are telling you > that not being able to control cache behavior is a really frustrating when > working in a virtualized environment where you are trying to divide limited > resources amongst many guests. The Cache behaviour is the biggest > non-application pig that I can see. > > Just my 2 cents > > </vent_spleen> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- Rich Smrcina illustro Systems International, LLC --- See The Light--- Visit www.illustro.com to experience: z/Web-Host -- Easy Web-enabling for your Mainframe z/XML-Host -- Easy XML Enablement for your Mainframe Tel: +1.214.800.8900 Fax: +1.214.800.8989 Catch the WAVV! http://www.wavv.org WAVV 2005 - Colorado Springs - May 20-24, 2005 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
