From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 25 May 2002 13:35:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 25 May 2002 13:35:43 -0400 Received: from mail.cert.uni-stuttgart.de ([129.69.16.17]:33708 "HELO Mail.CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sat, 25 May 2002 13:35:42 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: negative dentries wasting ram In-Reply-To: <20020524071657.GI21164@dualathlon.random> <20020524105348.T13411@devserv.devel.redhat.com> From: Florian Weimer Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 19:33:27 +0200 Message-ID: <87adqo9lp4.fsf@CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE> User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jakub Jelinek writes: > In glibc 2.3 this will be open("/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive", ), so > negative dentries won't be useful for glibc locale handling (that > doesn't mean negative dentries won't be useful for other things, including > exec?p or searching libraries if $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is used). I guess Apache's .htaccess checking benefits from negative caching, too. -- Florian Weimer Weimer@CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE University of Stuttgart http://CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE/people/fw/ RUS-CERT +49-711-685-5973/fax +49-711-685-5898