Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Feb 2000 05:17:24 +0100 (CET) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: 2.3.42 buffer problem/leak ? |
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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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