From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: John Lash <jlash@speakeasy.net>
Cc: alex.buell@munted.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: inode_cache / dentry_cache not being reclaimed aggressively enough on low-memory PCs
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 14:55:57 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040103145557.369a12c4.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040103103023.77bf91b5.jlash@speakeasy.net>
John Lash <jlash@speakeasy.net> wrote:
>
> As it stands, it will maintain as many unused entries as there are used entries.
> If this low memory system las a large, stable, number of inuse dentry objects,
> the unused entries will match it thereby holding double the memory and possibly
> causing the problem you see.
Yup. There is a fix in 2.6.1-rc1 for this.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-03 22:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-03 11:35 Alex Buell
2004-01-03 16:30 ` John Lash
2004-01-03 18:27 ` Alex Buell
2004-01-03 22:24 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-01-03 22:55 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-01-04 0:15 ` Alex Buell
2004-01-04 3:05 ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-04 7:23 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-01-05 17:32 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-01-05 18:47 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-01-09 20:49 ` Rik van Riel
2004-01-04 5:31 ` John Lash
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