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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
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Subject: Re: Large slab cache in 2.6.1
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William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> Similar issue here; I ran out of filp's/whatever shortly after booting.

On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 06:03:14PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> So Nick Piggin's VM patches won't help with this?

I think they're in -mm, and I'd call the vfs slab cache shrinking stuff
a vfs issue anyway because there's no actual VM content to it, apart
from the code in question being driven by the VM.


-- wli