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From: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: dcache leak in 2.6.16-git8 II
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 12:11:04 +0530
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On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 12:53:24AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Thursday 30 March 2006 00:50, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > It looks that way.  Didn't someone else report a sock_inode_cache leak?
> 
> Didn't see it.
>  
> > > I still got a copy of the /proc in case anybody wants more information.
> > 
> > We have this fancy new /proc/slab_allocators now, it might show something
> > interesting.  It needs CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK.
> 
> I didn't have that enabled unfortunately. I can try it on the next round.
> 
> -Andi
>

There is also a new sysctl to drop caches. It is called vm.drop_caches.
It will be interesting to see if it is able to free up some dcache memory
for you.

Balbir