Ok, rc1-aa1 is installed, up and running. Since it took a little more
then a day last time for this behavour to be displayed, i'll have to
wait before i can report back anything usefull.
Ps, a side question. if this is 'inode' and 'dentry' cache, why isnt it
reported as 'used by cache' in free, top, gtop, etc?
Also, why is this such a progressive problem? Even if i do a find on the
full +/- 400 gigs, create and remove 2 gig files, create 1000 temp
files, etc, in the first day the memory isnt 'disapearing' yet.
(ofcource it uses a lot of mem for cache/buffers, but no 'unaccounted
for in free or top' memory.
Will report back soon,
-- Chris
On Sat, 2001-12-15 at 15:24, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 01:36:11PM +0100, Chris Chabot wrote:
> > inode_cache 686896 686896 480 85862 85862 1 : 124 62
> > dentry_cache 696810 696810 128 23227 23227 1 : 252 126
>
> this is an icache/dcache problem, can you reproduce on 2.4.17rc1aa1, it
> will shrink more aggressively.
>
> really to get an even better balance we should add the icache/dcache
> slab pages into the lru as well... that would trigger the icache/dcache
> flushes more easily when too much ram is in those caches.
>
> Andrea
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