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From: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [long]2.5.44-mm3 UP went into unexpected trashing
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 15:05:16 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021024150516.C11418@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3DB7AC97.D31A3CB2@digeo.com>; from akpm@digeo.com on Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 08:22:07AM +0000

On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 08:22:07AM +0000, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 
> > Hopefully the rcu fix in -mm4 will cure this.
> 
> Oh.  It was in -mm3 too.  But something went wrong with the
> dcache shrinking there.

Hmm.. the thing to do here would be to look at cat /proc/sys/fs/dentry-state.
The number of dentries in the system should tally with dentry slab,
if it doesn't it might be an RCU issue in which case I would like to
look at /proc/rcu. If not, then we need to do some more digging.

Thanks
-- 
Dipankar Sarma  <dipankar@in.ibm.com> http://lse.sourceforge.net
Linux Technology Center, IBM Software Lab, Bangalore, India.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-24  9:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-24  7:47 [long]2.5.44-mm3 UP went into unexpected trashing Helge Hafting
2002-10-24  7:58 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-24  8:17   ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-24  9:35     ` Dipankar Sarma [this message]
2002-10-24 11:45     ` Maneesh Soni
2002-10-24 11:47       ` Ed Tomlinson
2002-10-24 12:38         ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-10-24 15:31           ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-10-24 15:46             ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-10-24 23:35               ` Rusty Russell
2002-10-25 12:27                 ` Dipankar Sarma
     [not found]                   ` <3DB98823.67FDBEF3@digeo.com>
     [not found]                     ` <20021025235222.A25786@in.ibm.com>
2002-10-26 15:54                       ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-10-29 12:53                         ` Ed Tomlinson
2002-10-24 12:46         ` Maneesh Soni

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