Re: 2.4.0-test8-pre1 is quite bad

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Fri Sep 01 2000 - 17:08:50 EDT

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    On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Ari Pollak wrote:

    > Well, the vmpatch still didn't fix the problem I've been having
    > for many moons (I believe since late 2.3.99) - When running
    > updatedb from the slocate distribution, I lose at least 90 MB of
    > memory by the time it's finished, and it takes about a day for
    > the memory to become usable again - this is not cached/buffered
    > mem, it just disappears off the face of my computer.

    Does it show up as icache and/or dcache when you cat
    /proc/slabinfo ?

    regards,

    Rik 

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