> I just experienced this problem on UP with 513M memory. About 400m was
> locked in dentries. The system was very unresponsive - suspect it was
> spending gobs of time scaning unfreeable dentries. This was with -mm3
> up about 24 hours.
>
> The inode caches looked sane. Just the dentries were out of wack.
I think you want this:
+read-barrier-depends.patch
RCU fix
Which is only in mm4 I believe. Wanna retest? mm4 is the first 44-mmX
that works for me ... seems to have quite a few bugfixes ;-)
M.
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