Re: negative dentries wasting ram

Florian Weimer
2002-05-25T17:35:44Z

Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> writes:

> In glibc 2.3 this will be open("/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive", ), so
> negative dentries won't be useful for glibc locale handling (that
> doesn't mean negative dentries won't be useful for other things, including
> exec?p or searching libraries if $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is used).

I guess Apache's .htaccess checking benefits from negative caching,
too.

--
Florian Weimer Weimer@CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE
University of Stuttgart http://CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE/people/fw/
RUS-CERT +49-711-685-5973/fax +49-711-685-5898