Re: 2.4.25 - large inode_cache

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Christian Leber wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 02:33:14AM +0100, Jakob Oestergaard wrote:
> > Besides, after a few days of running, the machine will use about 100MB
> > of memory for cache, 100MB for buffers, about 100MB for userspace, and
> > the remaining 600-700 MB of memory for inode_cache and dentry_cache.
>
> I have the same problem (it's an dual PIII NFS fileserver with promise sx6000
> raid, 320 GB ext3 filesystem and only 512 MB Ram).
>
> After only 2 days running the bloatmeter output looks like:
>    inode_cache:   336585KB   357234KB   94.21
>   dentry_cache:    50305KB    56523KB   88.99
>        size-32:     1516KB     1695KB   89.46
>
> free output is this:
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers  cached
> Mem:        515980     506464       9516          0    2272      19204
> -/+ buffers/cache:     484988      30992
> Swap:      1951856       7992    1943864

This should be normal behaviour -- the i/d caches grew because of file
system activitity. This memory will be reclaimed in case theres pressure.

Is the behaviour different from previous 2.4 or 2.6 kernels?
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