Re: inode_cache / dentry_cache not being reclaimed aggressivelyenough on low-memory PCs

[Andrew Morton]

John Lash <jlash@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> As it stands, it will maintain as many unused entries as there are used entries.
>  If this low memory system las a large, stable, number of inuse dentry objects,
>  the unused entries will match it thereby holding double the memory and possibly
>  causing the problem you see.

Yup.   There is a fix in 2.6.1-rc1 for this.
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