Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 10 Feb 2007 07:57:46 -0500 | From | "Russ Cox" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fix quadratic behavior of shrink_dcache_parent() |
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> Unfortunately this patch doesn't completely solve this problem, since > the system will still be hosed due to all memory being used up by > dentries. And I bet the OOM killer won't find the real target (du) > but will kill anything before that. > > So the second part of the problem is to somehow limit the number of > dentries used. Not easy...
At least with this patch (if I am reading it correctly), once the offending culprit is identified and the programs are killed off, everything will go back to normal without a reboot.
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