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. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ free > total used free shared buffers > cached > Mem: 5190736 4810880 379856 0 143032 > 3583868 > -/+ buffers/cache: 1083980 4106756 > Swap: 2048248 723064 1325184 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ > > 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 > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate > in the Yahoo! Answers Food & Drink Q&A. > _______________________________________________ > Ocfs2-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-users _______________________________________________ Ocfs2-users mailing list [email protected] http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-users
