On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 16:23 -0700, Dave Pifke wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > It could be a JFS quirk - I don't know much about JFS. It'd be
> interesting
> > to know if other filesystems behave in a similar manner.
>
> I have two more machines on order, so perhaps I'll try a different
> filesystem on them and report back if it makes a difference.
>
> > One thing you could do is to (re)mount the filesystems with `-o noatime'.
>
> I probably should have mentioned that this is already the case.
>
> > That should release _some_ of the blockdev pagecache, but not a lot, I
> > expect. Maybe JFS is just metadata-intensive..
>
> There appears to be a jfs-discussion mailing list on SourceForge; I'll
> try asking there.
I answered this in jfs-discussion, but for curious on linux-kernel:
There was a pretty major memory leak in jfs in the 2.6.8 kernel. This
one-line fix is in the 2.6.9 kernel. I'm guessing that this would
explain the problem you are seeing.
http://www.kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git;a=commitdiff;h=fcc1fcc376bb1fe8ed7609b07931fc5bd774943a
Thanks,
Shaggy
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David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center
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