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Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 15:05:16 +0530
From: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
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Subject: Re: [long]2.5.44-mm3 UP went into unexpected trashing
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On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 08:22:07AM +0000, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 
> > Hopefully the rcu fix in -mm4 will cure this.
> 
> Oh.  It was in -mm3 too.  But something went wrong with the
> dcache shrinking there.

Hmm.. the thing to do here would be to look at cat /proc/sys/fs/dentry-state.
The number of dentries in the system should tally with dentry slab,
if it doesn't it might be an RCU issue in which case I would like to
look at /proc/rcu. If not, then we need to do some more digging.

Thanks
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Dipankar Sarma  <dipankar@in.ibm.com> http://lse.sourceforge.net
Linux Technology Center, IBM Software Lab, Bangalore, India.
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