Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 21 Feb 2004 18:40:12 -0800 | From | Mike Fedyk <> | Subject | Re: Large slab cache in 2.6.1 |
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William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> William Lee Irwin III wrote: > >>>Similar issue here; I ran out of filp's/whatever shortly after booting. > > > On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 06:03:14PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > >>So Nick Piggin's VM patches won't help with this? > > > I think they're in -mm, and I'd call the vfs slab cache shrinking stuff > a vfs issue anyway because there's no actual VM content to it, apart > from the code in question being driven by the VM.
Hmm, that's news to me. Maybe that's a newer patch. I haven't been reading the list much for the last month or so...
Nick had a patch that was supposed to help 2.6 with low memory situations to bring it on a par with 2.4 in that respect. ISTR "active recycling" being mentioned about it...
I also did a find / -xdev -type f -exec cat "{}" \; > /dev/null 2>&1 with no swap and my page cache didn't get any bigger and slab didn't shrink. :(
Is there anything in 2.6.3 in respect to IDE, MD Raid{1,5}, knfsd, or athlons I should worry about in upgrading from 2.6.1?
Thanks,
Mike
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