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From: "Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos@serpentine.com>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Strange dcache memory pressure when highmem enabled
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 22:05:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1066194345.16993.12.camel@camp4.serpentine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16268.52761.907998.436272@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au>

On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 21:33, Neil Brown wrote:

>  I have a fairly busy NFS server which has been having performance
>  problems lately.  I have managed to work around the problems, but
>  would really like to get the root problem fixed.

Funny, I have seen exactly the same problem, though with a Red Hat
2.4.20 kernel, rather than a vanilla-ish 2.4.

I have a few thousand more entries in my dentry cache on a 2G machine,
but it's still a pitiful number.

What workarounds did you find?

	<b


  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-15  5:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-15  4:33 Strange dcache memory pressure when highmem enabled Neil Brown
2003-10-15  5:05 ` Bryan O'Sullivan [this message]
2003-10-15  5:10   ` Neil Brown
2003-10-15  5:43 ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-15  5:46   ` Neil Brown
2003-10-15  9:58     ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-10-16 13:33   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-10-21 22:57     ` Neil Brown
2003-10-22  1:03       ` Andrea Arcangeli

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