Re: dentry_cache using up all my zone normal memory -- also seenon 2.6.14-rc2

From: Christopher Friesen
Date: Wed Sep 21 2005 - 16:00:23 EST


Sonny Rao wrote:

Over one million files open at once is just asking for trouble on a
lowmem-crippled x86 machine, IMHO.

I don't think there actually are. I ran the testcase under strace, and it appears that there are two threads going at once.

thread 1 spins doing the following:
fd = creat("./rename14", 0666);
unlink("./rename14");
close(fd);

thread 2 spins doing:
rename("./rename14", "./rename14xyz");

Chris
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