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SubjectRe: I think I have a memory leak in 2.3.x
Hi,

On Thu, 24 Jun 1999 11:09:42 -0400 (EDT), Chuck Lever <cel@monkey.org>
said:

> since i don't have the history that you and others here might have, can
> you tell me why the inode cache is implemented so that it uses raw pages
> and never shrinks? is it simply older than the slab cache
> implementation?

The original inode cache is ancient. The slab only arrived in 2.1. The
inode.c was pretty much rewritten in 2.1 too, but the underlying data
structures predate slab by a long, long way.

> would there be any advantage to a re-implementation?

Potentially.

--Stephen

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