Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263740AbUD0EDP (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Apr 2004 00:03:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263748AbUD0EDO (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Apr 2004 00:03:14 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:44163 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263740AbUD0EDL (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Apr 2004 00:03:11 -0400 Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 21:02:37 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Nick Piggin Cc: corbet@lwn.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ext3 inode cache eats system, news at 11 Message-Id: <20040426210237.788045cf.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <408DD2D5.1040306@yahoo.com.au> References: <20040426171856.22514.qmail@lwn.net> <20040426181235.2b5b62c8.akpm@osdl.org> <408DD2D5.1040306@yahoo.com.au> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 905 Lines: 21 Nick Piggin wrote: > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.6-rc2/2.6.6-rc2-mm2/broken-out/slab-order-0-for-vfs-caches.patch > > > > is not a completely happy solution, but it should fix things up. > > Another thing you could be doing is not zeroing swapper->nr > if the shrinker function doesn't do anything, in order to try > to maintain pressure on the dcache. This would be similar to > your deferred list idea. Am now doing this. ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.6-rc2/2.6.6-rc2-mm2/broken-out/shrink_slab-handle-GFP_NOFS.patch - 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/