* [Linux-ia64] limiting dentries on Linux
@ 2003-02-05 17:49 Mario Smarduch
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From: Mario Smarduch @ 2003-02-05 17:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-ia64
I apologize in advance for floating a general Linux question
on IA-64 group.
What can be used to limit space allocated for dentries?
For example catting non-existing files eats up 30M of
memory.
What group is more relevant to these types of questions.
thks,
Mario.
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* Re: [Linux-ia64] limiting dentries on Linux
@ 2003-03-12 18:24 Jes Sorensen
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From: Jes Sorensen @ 2003-03-12 18:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-ia64
>>>>> "Mario" = Mario Smarduch <cms063@email.mot.com> writes:
Mario> I apologize in advance for floating a general Linux question on
Mario> IA-64 group.
Mario> What can be used to limit space allocated for dentries? For
Mario> example catting non-existing files eats up 30M of memory.
Actually that just goes into the buffer/page caches and will be
released again once someone tries to allocate the memory back using
the appropriate kmalloc() flags, ie. anything but GFP_ATOMIC.
Mario> What group is more relevant to these types of questions.
Possibly linux-kernel, however I doubt you will find much support for
limiting the buffer/page caches.
Cheers,
Jes
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