From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261646AbUBVCim (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Feb 2004 21:38:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261645AbUBVCim (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Feb 2004 21:38:42 -0500 Received: from mail-08.iinet.net.au ([203.59.3.40]:44210 "HELO mail.iinet.net.au") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261646AbUBVCik (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Feb 2004 21:38:40 -0500 Message-ID: <4038162C.7080301@cyberone.com.au> Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 13:38:36 +1100 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040122 Debian/1.6-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: William Lee Irwin III CC: Mike Fedyk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Large slab cache in 2.6.1 References: <4037FCDA.4060501@matchmail.com> <4038014E.5070600@matchmail.com> <20040222012033.GC703@holomorphy.com> <40380DE2.4030702@matchmail.com> <20040222021710.GD703@holomorphy.com> In-Reply-To: <20040222021710.GD703@holomorphy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org William Lee Irwin III wrote: >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. > > Yes they're in -mm and in dire need of more testing. The indented audience are people who's machines are swapping a lot, but ensuring they don't break more common cases isn't a bad idea.