Re: Large slab cache in 2.6.1

Nick Piggin
2004-02-22T02:38:42Z

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:
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>>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.