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

Christopher Friesen
2005-09-21T20:59:51Z

Sonny Rao wrote:

> Over one million files open at once is just asking for trouble on a
> lowmem-crippled x86 machine, IMHO.

I don't think there actually are. I ran the testcase under strace, and
it appears that there are two threads going at once.

thread 1 spins doing the following:
fd = creat("./rename14", 0666);
unlink("./rename14");
close(fd);

thread 2 spins doing:
rename("./rename14", "./rename14xyz");

Chris