Messages in this thread | | | From | Oliver Neukum <> | Subject | Re: negative dentries wasting ram | Date | Fri, 31 May 2002 10:34:33 +0200 |
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> as far I can see that negative dentries are not caching anything, they > should be dropped immediatly, they even slowdown the lookups because > they're hashed.
They cache things like this: open("/usr/lib/locale/de_DE+euro/LC_MEASUREMENT", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/locale/de_DE@euro/LC_MEASUREMENT", O_RDONLY) = 3
Thus they are not really useless, they are just not usefully limited. Thus IMHO you should look at the swap out path.
Regards Oliver
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