On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>
> >Yes that's sure the problem. The dentries growing to crazy values is a
>
> Forget to tell that it's not a memleak but only an unbalance in the
> icache/dcache shrinking. If you run an hog for a few seconds (just to run
> a bit into swap) the icache/dcache will be shrunk immediatly.
It's not just a .42 issue though. I'm using 2.3.41 and to my untutored
eye it doesn't appear to shrink.
[root@wr5z /root]# cat /proc/meminfo
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 63610880 52514816 11096064 0 499712 19607552
Swap: 73990144 2658304 71331840
and /proc/slabinfo shows:
inode_cache 46489 57576
bdev_cache 21 63
signal_queue 1 29
kiobuf 0 0
buffer_head 8293 8400
mm_struct 26 50
vm_area_struct 479 693
dentry_cache 18799 45415
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