Re: Weird memory usage, performance problem with 6.1_STABLE

[Mark Davies <mark%ecs.vuw.ac.nz@localhost>]

On Thursday 19 September 2013 20:36:49 Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> the file cache shouldn't be allowed to use that much memory.
> What are your vm.* settings (sysctl vm) ?

They are the default settings from GENERIC, I haven't explicitly set 
anything.

vm.loadavg: 0.00 0.00 0.00
vm.maxslp = 20
vm.uspace = 12288
vm.user_va0_disable = 1
vm.idlezero = 1
vm.anonmin = 10
vm.filemin = 10
vm.execmin = 5
vm.anonmax = 80
vm.filemax = 50
vm.execmax = 30
vm.inactivepct = 33
vm.bufcache = 15
vm.bufmem = 195102208
vm.bufmem_lowater = 321228800
vm.bufmem_hiwater = 2569830400

> did you change ftp.conf, especially the mmapsize parameter ?

No.  Wasn't aware of that parameter.

cheers
mark