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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
Cc: lord@xfs.org, ak@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kenneth.w.chen@intel.com
Subject: Re: Limit hash table size
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 19:34:49 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040205193449.5a8b8c0b.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <402308B6.3060802@cyberone.com.au>

Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au> wrote:
>
> >Was it a highmem box?  If so, was the filesystem in question placing
>  >directory pagecache in highmem?  If so, that was really bad on older 2.4:
>  >the directory pagecache in highmem pins down all directory inodes.
>  >
>  >
> 
>  2.6.2-mm1 should fix this I think.

2.6.anything should fix it.  It used to, anyway.

>  In particular, this hunk in vm-shrink-zone.patch

That's on the direct reclaim path - for sane workloads most of the freeing
activity is via kswapd.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-06  3:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <B05667366EE6204181EABE9C1B1C0EB5802441@scsmsx401.sc.intel.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found] ` <20040205155813.726041bd.akpm@osdl.org.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2004-02-06  1:54   ` Limit hash table size Andi Kleen
2004-02-05  2:38     ` Steve Lord
2004-02-06  3:12       ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-05  4:06         ` Steve Lord
2004-02-06  4:39           ` Andi Kleen
2004-02-06  4:59             ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-06  5:34             ` Maneesh Soni
2004-02-06  3:19         ` Andi Kleen
2004-02-06  3:23         ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-06  3:34           ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-02-06  3:38             ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-18 12:41       ` Pavel Machek
2004-02-06  3:09     ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-06  3:18       ` Andi Kleen
2004-02-06  3:30         ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-06  4:45           ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-02-06  6:22       ` Matt Mackall
2004-02-06 20:20       ` Taneli Vähäkangas
2004-02-06 20:27         ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-06 21:46           ` Taneli Vähäkangas
2004-02-18  0:45 Chen, Kenneth W
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-02-18  0:16 Chen, Kenneth W
2004-02-17 22:24 Chen, Kenneth W
2004-02-17 23:24 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-06  6:32 Manfred Spraul
2004-02-06  0:10 Chen, Kenneth W
2004-02-06  0:23 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-09 23:12   ` Jes Sorensen
2004-01-14 22:31 Chen, Kenneth W
2004-01-18 14:25 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-01-14 22:29 Chen, Kenneth W
2004-01-12 16:50 Manfred Spraul
2004-01-09 19:05 Chen, Kenneth W
2004-01-12 13:32 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-01-08 23:12 Chen, Kenneth W
2004-01-09  9:25 ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-09 14:25 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-02-05 23:58 ` Andrew Morton

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