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From: Ed Tomlinson <tomlins@cam.org>
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To: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Subject: Re: ZONE_NORMAL exhaustion (dcache slab)
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 07:35:48 -0400
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Hi,

I just experienced this problem on UP with 513M memory.  About 400m was 
locked in dentries.  The system was very unresponsive - suspect it was
spending gobs of time scaning unfreeable dentries.  This was with -mm3
up about 24 hours.

The inode caches looked sane.  Just the dentries were out of wack.

Ed

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