Re: Weird memory usage, performance problem with 6.1_STABLE

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 08:30:05PM +1000, matthew green wrote:
> 
> > > Memory: 15G Act, 113M Inact, 15M Wired, 29M Exec, 15G File, 112K Free
> > > Swap: 8192M Total, 8192M Free
> > 
> > the file cache shouldn't be allowed to use that much memory.
> 
> why do you say that?  vm.filemax is not really a maximum, it
> can use all free memory if there isn't memory pressure.

OK, I dind't understand it this way.

I wonder if it could be a case where the kernel runs out of KVA.
What is the KVA limit on amd64 ? I couldn't easily find this information ...

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