Re: Strange dcache memory pressure when highmem enabled

[Bryan O'Sullivan]

On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 21:33, Neil Brown wrote:

>  I have a fairly busy NFS server which has been having performance
>  problems lately.  I have managed to work around the problems, but
>  would really like to get the root problem fixed.

Funny, I have seen exactly the same problem, though with a Red Hat
2.4.20 kernel, rather than a vanilla-ish 2.4.

I have a few thousand more entries in my dentry cache on a 2G machine,
but it's still a pitiful number.

What workarounds did you find?

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