Re: dentry_cache using up all my zone normal memory -- also seen on 2.6.14-rc2

Christopher Friesen
2005-10-04T20:03:05Z

Dipankar Sarma wrote:

> Since then, I have done some testing myself, but I can't reproduce
> this problem in two of my systems - x86 and x86_64. I ran rename14
> in a loop too, but after exhausting a lot of free memory, dcache
> does get shrunk and I don't see dentries stuck in RCU queues at all.
> I tried UP kernel too.

I've only managed to reproduce it on a UP system with HIGHMEM.

> So, there must be something else in your system that I
> am missing in my setup. Could you please mail me your .config ?

Sent privately.

Chris