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SubjectRe: 2.3.42 buffer problem/leak ?
On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, David S. Miller wrote:

>cat /proc/slabinfo, look for big numbers
>
>I bet the system is caching inode and dentry objects too hard.
>This is probably why "eatmem" cleared the situation up.
>
>I see it here too.


Yes that's sure the problem. The dentries growing to crazy values is a
2.2.x problems as well but in 2.2.x it's mitigated by the hard limit of
inodes, thus dentry in 2.2.x can grow to crazy values only using lots of
hardlinks.

Andrea


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