Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Wed, 21 Sep 2005 14:59:30 -0600 | From | "Christopher Friesen" <> | Subject | Re: dentry_cache using up all my zone normal memory -- also seen on 2.6.14-rc2 |
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Sonny Rao wrote:
> Over one million files open at once is just asking for trouble on a > lowmem-crippled x86 machine, IMHO.
I don't think there actually are. I ran the testcase under strace, and it appears that there are two threads going at once.
thread 1 spins doing the following: fd = creat("./rename14", 0666); unlink("./rename14"); close(fd);
thread 2 spins doing: rename("./rename14", "./rename14xyz");
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