Re: Large slab cache in 2.6.1

Mike Fedyk
2004-02-22T02:40:42Z

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:
>
>>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.

Hmm, that's news to me. Maybe that's a newer patch. I haven't been
reading the list much for the last month or so...

Nick had a patch that was supposed to help 2.6 with low memory
situations to bring it on a par with 2.4 in that respect. ISTR "active
recycling" being mentioned about it...

I also did a
find / -xdev -type f -exec cat "{}" \; > /dev/null 2>&1
with no swap and my page cache didn't get any bigger and slab didn't
shrink. :(

Is there anything in 2.6.3 in respect to IDE, MD Raid{1,5}, knfsd, or
athlons I should worry about in upgrading from 2.6.1?

Thanks,

Mike