Re: VM in 2.4.7-pre hurts...

[Mike Galbraith]

On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote:

> On 9 Jul 2001, Christoph Rohland wrote:
>
> > Hi Mike,
> >
> > On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > > --- mm/shmem.c.org	Mon Jul  9 09:03:27 2001
> > > +++ mm/shmem.c	Mon Jul  9 09:03:46 2001
> > > @@ -264,8 +264,8 @@
> > >  	info->swapped++;
> > >
> > >  	spin_unlock(&info->lock);
> > > -out:
> > >  	set_page_dirty(page);
> > > +out:
> > >  	UnlockPage(page);
> > >  	return error;
> > >  }
> > >
> > > So, did I fix it or just bust it in a convenient manner ;-)
> >
> > ... now you drop random pages. This of course helps reducing memory
> > pressure ;-)
>
> (shoot.  I figured that was too easy to be right)

Urk!  Yeah, removing the only thing in the world keeping ramfs/tmpfs
page pegged was kinda.. dumb.  I'd ask for a browm paper baggie, but
my pointy head might damage it ;-)

> > But still this may be a hint.

_Anyway_, tmpfs is growing and growing from stdout.  If I send
output to /dev/null, no growth.  Nothing in tmpfs is growing, so I
presume the memory is disappearing down one of X or KDE's sockets.

No such leakage without tmpfs, and I can do all kinds of normal
file type use of tmpfs with no leakage.

	-Mike