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.
next prev parent 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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