Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964945AbVIUVZZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Sep 2005 17:25:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964960AbVIUVZZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Sep 2005 17:25:25 -0400 Received: from zctfs063.nortelnetworks.com ([47.164.128.120]:55686 "EHLO zctfs063.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964945AbVIUVZY (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Sep 2005 17:25:24 -0400 Message-ID: <4331CFAD.6020805@nortel.com> Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 15:25:01 -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: dipankar@in.ibm.com CC: Sonny Rao , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Theodore Ts'o" , bharata@in.ibm.com, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no 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> <4331C9B2.5070801@nortel.com> <20050921210019.GF4569@in.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20050921210019.GF4569@in.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 Sep 2005 21:25:11.0414 (UTC) FILETIME=[F2C2C160:01C5BEF2] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 442 Lines: 13 Dipankar Sarma wrote: > Does this happen on a non-nfs filesystem ? Digging in a bit more, it looks like the files are being created/destroyed/renamed in /tmp, which is a tmpfs filesystem. 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/