Bug#698829: kernel swap after upgrade to 3.2.23-1~bpo60+2

[Daniele Melosi <ml@melosi.it>]

On 09/03/2013 18:46, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-03-07 at 18:22 +0100, Daniele Melosi wrote:
>> On 05/03/2013 03:40, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>>>> # wc -l /proc/mounts
>>>> 329219 /proc/mounts
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> Er, wow, that's a lot.  Does this *also* increase over time, or are
>>> those mostly mounted at boot?
>>
>> I agree, it's a lot.
>>
>> The number of entries in /proc/mounts file increase over time, at the
>> boot is low (~100 lines).
> 
> Are these bind-mounts or separate filesystem mounts?

these are bind-mounts.

> Experimentally, bind-mounts appear to require about 1K each.

We haven't the same behavior with 2.6.32 kernel (the squeeze default).

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Daniele Melosi