Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964818AbVIUUuP (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:50:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964820AbVIUUuP (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:50:15 -0400 Received: from zctfs063.nortelnetworks.com ([47.164.128.120]:57472 "EHLO zctfs063.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964818AbVIUUuM (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:50:12 -0400 Message-ID: <4331C772.7030906@nortel.com> Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 14:49:54 -0600 From: "Christopher Friesen" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040115 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sonny Rao CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Marcelo Tosatti , "Theodore Ts'o" Subject: Re: dentry_cache using up all my zone normal memory -- also seen on 2.6.14-rc2 References: <433189B5.3030308@nortel.com> <43318FFA.4010706@nortel.com> <4331B89B.3080107@nortel.com> <20050921200758.GA25362@kevlar.burdell.org> In-Reply-To: <20050921200758.GA25362@kevlar.burdell.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 Sep 2005 20:50:04.0240 (UTC) FILETIME=[0AC98500:01C5BEEE] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 443 Lines: 13 Sonny Rao wrote: > Just for kicks (again), have you tried ratcheting up the > /proc/sys/vm/vfs_cache_pressure tunable by a few orders of magnitude ? Boosting it up to 1000000 had no effect. Chris - 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/