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From: "Christopher Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
	Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>, Sonny Rao <sonny@burdell.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	bharata@in.ibm.com, trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no
Subject: Re: dentry_cache using up all my zone normal memory -- also seen on 2.6.14-rc2
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 14:02:39 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4342DFDF.9010206@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051004194349.GA6039@in.ibm.com>

Dipankar Sarma wrote:

> Since then, I have done some testing myself, but I can't reproduce
> this problem in two of my systems - x86 and x86_64. I ran rename14
> in a loop too, but after exhausting a lot of free memory, dcache
> does get shrunk and I don't see dentries stuck in RCU queues at all.
> I tried UP kernel too.

I've only managed to reproduce it on a UP system with HIGHMEM.

> So, there must be something else in your system that I
> am missing in my setup. Could you please mail me your .config ?

Sent privately.

Chris

  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-04 20:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-21 16:26 dentry_cache using up all my zone normal memory Christopher Friesen
2005-09-21 16:53 ` Christopher Friesen
2005-09-21 19:46   ` dentry_cache using up all my zone normal memory -- also seen on 2.6.14-rc2 Christopher Friesen
2005-09-21 20:07     ` Sonny Rao
2005-09-21 20:27       ` Christopher Friesen
2005-09-21 20:49       ` Christopher Friesen
2005-09-21 20:59       ` Christopher Friesen
2005-09-21 20:58         ` Sonny Rao
2005-09-21 21:00         ` Dipankar Sarma
2005-09-21 21:14           ` Al Viro
2005-09-21 21:14           ` Trond Myklebust
2005-09-21 21:25             ` Christopher Friesen
2005-09-21 21:29               ` Christopher Friesen
2005-09-21 21:25           ` Christopher Friesen
2005-09-21 22:03             ` Roland Dreier
2005-09-22  3:11               ` Al Viro
2005-09-22  3:54                 ` Christopher Friesen
2005-09-22  4:17                   ` Al Viro
2005-09-22 14:47                     ` Christopher Friesen
2005-09-22 15:16                     ` Christopher Friesen
2005-09-22 18:12                       ` dentry_cache using up all my zone normal memory -- new data point Christopher Friesen
2005-09-22 18:27                       ` dentry_cache using up all my zone normal memory -- also seen on 2.6.14-rc2 Dipankar Sarma
2005-09-22 19:03                         ` Christopher Friesen
2005-09-22 19:18                           ` Dipankar Sarma
2005-09-22 21:37                             ` Christopher Friesen
2005-09-22 21:44                               ` Sonny Rao
2005-09-22 21:55                                 ` Christopher Friesen
2005-09-22 22:04                                   ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-09-26  4:43                                     ` [PATCH/RFC] sysrq: updating console_loglevel Randy.Dunlap
2005-09-22 22:05                             ` dentry_cache using up all my zone normal memory -- also seen on 2.6.14-rc2 Christopher Friesen
2005-10-04 19:43                       ` Dipankar Sarma
2005-10-04 20:02                         ` Christopher Friesen [this message]
2005-10-05  4:00                           ` Dipankar Sarma
2005-09-30 22:03 ` dentry_cache using up all my zone normal memory Christopher Friesen
2005-10-01 23:22   ` Marcelo
2005-10-02  6:04     ` Christopher Friesen
2005-10-02 19:55       ` Marcelo

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