Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 18:43:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 18:43:33 -0500 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:26054 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 18:43:30 -0500 Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 15:54:31 -0800 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Badari Pulavarty Cc: Joel.Becker@oracle.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 64-bit kdev_t - just for playing Message-ID: <20030331235431.GU30140@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Badari Pulavarty , Joel.Becker@oracle.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200303311541.50200.pbadari@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200303311541.50200.pbadari@us.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 725 Lines: 17 On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 03:41:50PM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > 2) sysfs inode use up 50 MB of low memory > - 4000 disks without partitions create (4000 * 35) = 140,000 inodes in > /sysfs. So, it uses 50 MB of lowmem. > 3) dcache is eating up 25 MB of low memory. These are actually the same thing (the inode pinning references are actually held by the dentries IIRC). shaggy and I are brewing up something to show to gregkh and mochel in the near future. -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/