Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263109AbVCKBtb (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2005 20:49:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263000AbVCKBtb (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2005 20:49:31 -0500 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:4016 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263112AbVCKBsZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2005 20:48:25 -0500 Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:47:51 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Badari Pulavarty Cc: ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: inode cache, dentry cache, buffer heads usage Message-Id: <20050310174751.522c5420.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1110394558.24286.203.camel@dyn318077bld.beaverton.ibm.com> References: <1110394558.24286.203.camel@dyn318077bld.beaverton.ibm.com> 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: 558 Lines: 14 Badari Pulavarty wrote: > > So, why is these slab cache are not getting purged/shrinked even > under memory pressure ? (I have seen lowmem as low as 6MB). What > can I do to keep the machine healthy ? Tried increasing /proc/sys/vm/vfs_cache_pressure? (That might not be in 2.6.8 though). - 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/