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

Christopher Friesen
2005-09-21T21:29:41Z

Friesen, Christopher [CAR:VC21:EXCH] wrote:
> Trond Myklebust wrote:
>
>> ...and what is "an NFS filesystem"? v2, v3, v4, ...?
>
>
> I think the root filesystem is v3. But as I mentioned, I just realized
> the file manipulation was happening on a tmpfs filesystem.

As a data point, the LTP test does not trigger the oom killer if /tmp is
part of the root filesystem and not a separate tmpfs partition.

Chris