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

[John Lash]

ahh, good. I'll take a look. Thanks Andrew.

--john


On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 14:55:57 -0800
Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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