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From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.name>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: negative dentries wasting ram
Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 10:34:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200205311034.33771.oliver@neukum.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020524071657.GI21164@dualathlon.random>


> as far I can see that negative dentries are not caching anything, they
> should be dropped immediatly, they even slowdown the lookups because
> they're hashed.

They cache things like this:
open("/usr/lib/locale/de_DE+euro/LC_MEASUREMENT", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No 
such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/locale/de_DE@euro/LC_MEASUREMENT", O_RDONLY) = 3

Thus they are not really useless, they are just not usefully limited.
Thus IMHO you should look at the swap out path.

	Regards
		Oliver


      parent reply	other threads:[~2002-05-24  8:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-24  7:16 Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-24  8:10 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-05-24 15:36   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-24 16:12     ` Alexander Viro
2002-05-24 16:21       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-24 16:24         ` Alexander Viro
2002-05-24 14:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-05-24 14:51   ` David S. Miller
2002-05-24 14:53   ` Jakub Jelinek
2002-05-24 20:44     ` David Schwartz
2002-05-25 17:33     ` Florian Weimer
2002-05-24 15:54   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-24 16:22   ` Alexander Viro
2002-05-24 16:29     ` Linus Torvalds
2002-05-24 16:39       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-24 17:04         ` Alexander Viro
2002-05-24 17:06           ` Alexander Viro
2002-05-24 17:55           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-24 18:00             ` Alexander Viro
2002-05-24 18:58               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-24 19:04                 ` Alexander Viro
2002-05-24 19:43                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-24 19:55                     ` Alexander Viro
2002-05-24 20:36                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-24 22:14                         ` Jan Harkes
2002-05-24 22:31                           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-26  8:06             ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-05-24 17:00       ` Alexander Viro
2002-05-24 18:36         ` Mark Mielke
2002-05-31  8:34 ` Oliver Neukum [this message]

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