From: Guennadi Liakhovetski <gl@dsa-ac.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: sct@redhat.com, adilger@clusterfs.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6.18-rc6] ext3 memory leak
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 09:38:59 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0609080933390.1700@pcgl.dsa-ac.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060907093417.54d2adf1.akpm@osdl.org>
On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
> It is expected that in this situation the number of buffer_head objects will
> be approximately equal to the number of pagecache pages. So once the pagecache
> has grown to consume all available memory and the kernel starts to perform pagecache
> reclaim, the buffer_head count should stabilise.
Ok, thanks that's exactly what I had to know - makes sense now.
Sorry for a false alarm.
Thanks
Guennadi
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Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D.
DSA Daten- und Systemtechnik GmbH
Pascalstr. 28
D-52076 Aachen
Germany
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-08 7:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-07 11:10 Guennadi Liakhovetski
2006-09-07 11:31 ` Gene Heskett
2006-09-07 15:21 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2006-09-07 16:21 ` Gene Heskett
2006-09-07 16:34 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-08 7:38 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski [this message]
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