Re: Fwd: Re: memory usage - dentry_cacheg

Andreas Dilger
2001-04-12T07:02:59Z

Al writes:
> We _have_ VM pressure there. However, such loads had never been used, so
> there's no wonder that system gets unbalanced under them.
>
> I suspect that simple replacement of goto next; with continue; in the
> fs/dcache.c::prune_dcache() may make situation seriously better.

Yes, it appears that this would be a bug. We were only _checking_
"count" dentries, rather than pruning "count" dentries.

Testing continues.

Cheers, Andreas
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