From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Maarten Maathuis <madman2003@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: heavy file i/o on ext3 filesystem leads to huge ext3_inode_cache and dentry_cache that doesn't return to normal for hours
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 10:43:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1154684587.23655.175.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6d4bc9fc0608040053x4d7a9e14xe9de793cd0787736@mail.gmail.com>
Ar Gwe, 2006-08-04 am 09:53 +0200, ysgrifennodd Maarten Maathuis:
> > > Whenever there is serious hard drive activity (such as doing "slocate
> > > -u") ext3_inode_cache and dentry_cache grow to a combined 400-500 MiB.
> >
> > The behavior of slocate (updatedb) is pretty well-known, but nobody has
> > come up with a real solution.
Thats not actually true. There is patch to page back in code on a quiet
machine which is in -mm and is designed to pull stuff back after a busy
period. There was also discussion (but not yet code) for splitting the
dcache into two and being much smarter about recycling it.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-04 9:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-03 16:27 Maarten Maathuis
2006-08-04 3:19 ` Dave Kleikamp
2006-08-04 3:27 ` Jeffrey V. Merkey
2006-08-04 7:53 ` Maarten Maathuis
2006-08-04 8:52 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-04 9:43 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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