From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jes Sorensen Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 18:24:11 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] limiting dentries on Linux Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "Mario" = Mario Smarduch 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