[Devel] privvmpages problem in 2.6.15beta

[Kir Kolyshkin]

As a side note: failcnt for your privvmpages is > 0, so there are some 
failed allocations for this parameter, you might want to increase it.

Kir

Miroslav Ruda wrote:

> Hello,
>
>  I'm testing 2.6.15-025stab014-default on AMD64 machine and I have 
> some problems with privvmpages. It seems to me that value of 
> privvmpages is nevere decreased.
> This is current situation in one VPS:
>
> root# cat /proc/user_beancounters
> Version: 2.5
>    uid ref  resource                     held              maxheld 
>  barrier                limit              failcnt
>   102 2481: kmemsize                     1072                 2147 
>  3578265              3816816                    0
>             lockedpages                     0                    0 
>       32                   32                    0
>             privvmpages               1909456              1915750 
> 13107200             13107200                   36
>             shmpages                        0                    0     
> 8192                 8192                    0
>             dummy                           0                    0 
> 9223372036854775807  9223372036854775807                    0
>             numproc                        17                   24 
>       65                   65                    0
>             physpages                    1310                21194 
>        0  9223372036854775807                    0
>             vmguarpages                     0                    0     
> 6144  9223372036854775807                    0
>             oomguarpages                 1310                21194     
> 6144  9223372036854775807                    0
>             numtcpsock                     15                   19 
>       80                   80                    0
>             numflock                        1                   10 
>      100                  110                    0
>             numpty                          1                    1 
>       16                   16                    0
>             numsiginfo                      0                    6 
>      256                  256                    0
>             tcpsndbuf                    2304                44032   
> 319488               524288                    0
>             tcprcvbuf                       0                 8704   
> 319488               524288                    0
>             othersockbuf                25344                33024   
> 132096               336896                    0
>             dgramrcvbuf                     0                 4352   
> 132096               132096                    0
>             numothersock                   14                   19 
>       80                   80                    0
>             dcachesize                 115497               202857 
>  1048576              1097728                    0
>             numfile                       165                 1280     
> 1280                 1280                 2995
>             dummy                           0                    0 
> 9223372036854775807  9223372036854775807                    0
>             dummy                           0                    0 
> 9223372036854775807  9223372036854775807                    0
>             dummy                           0                    0 
> 9223372036854775807  9223372036854775807                    0
>             numiptent                      10                   10 
>      128                  128                    0
>
> root# ps axu
> USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
> root         1  0.0  0.0  1516  524 ?        Ss   13:13   0:00 ini
> daemon   16306  0.0  0.0  1632  352 ?        Ss   13:13   0:00 
> /sbin/portmap
> root     16368  0.0  0.0  2268  724 ?        Ss   13:13   0:00 
> /sbin/syslogd
> root     16371  0.0  0.0  1516  364 ?        Ss   13:13   0:00 
> /sbin/klogd
> root     17430  0.0  0.0  2248  676 ?        Ss   13:13   0:00 
> /usr/sbin/inetd
> root     17533  0.0  0.1  4784 1044 ?        Ss   13:13   0:00 
> /usr/sbin/sshd
> root     17539  0.0  0.0  2396  876 ?        Ss   13:13   0:00 
> /sbin/rpc.statd
> root     17546  0.0  0.0  1772  748 ?        Ss   13:13   0:00 
> /usr/sbin/cron
> root     17591  0.0  0.2  5940 2636 ?        Rs   13:14   0:00 sshd: 
> root at pts/0
> root     17599  0.0  0.1  2604 1512 pts/0    Rs   13:14   0:00 -bash
> root     22137  0.0  0.0  2508  856 pts/0    R+   14:02   0:00 ps axu
>
> Avery time I start some program, held value for privvmpages is 
> increased and never changed back when program finish. Is it know bug 
> or my misunderstanding
> of privvmpages?
>
> Best regards
>