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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: inode cache, dentry cache, buffer heads usage
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:47:51 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050310174751.522c5420.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1110394558.24286.203.camel@dyn318077bld.beaverton.ibm.com>

Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> So, why is these slab cache are not getting purged/shrinked even
>  under memory pressure ? (I have seen lowmem as low as 6MB). What
>  can I do to keep the machine healthy ?

Tried increasing /proc/sys/vm/vfs_cache_pressure?  (That might not be in
2.6.8 though).


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-03-11  1:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-09 18:55 inode cache, dentry cache, buffer heads usage Badari Pulavarty
2005-03-09 21:27 ` Dipankar Sarma
2005-03-09 21:29   ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-03-09 21:53     ` Dipankar Sarma
2005-03-09 21:57       ` [Ext2-devel] " Sonny Rao
2005-03-11  1:47 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-03-14 21:28   ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-03-14 22:11     ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-14 22:13       ` [Ext2-devel] " Badari Pulavarty
2005-03-14 22:41         ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-15 16:17           ` Badari Pulavarty

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