Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964974AbVIUV3l (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Sep 2005 17:29:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964976AbVIUV3k (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Sep 2005 17:29:40 -0400 Received: from zctfs063.nortelnetworks.com ([47.164.128.120]:23687 "EHLO zctfs063.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964968AbVIUV3j (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Sep 2005 17:29:39 -0400 Message-ID: <4331D0B3.5010104@nortel.com> Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 15:29:23 -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: "Christopher Friesen" CC: Trond Myklebust , dipankar@in.ibm.com, Sonny Rao , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Theodore Ts'o" , bharata@in.ibm.com 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> <1127337280.11109.48.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <4331CFE7.4050805@nortel.com> In-Reply-To: <4331CFE7.4050805@nortel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 Sep 2005 21:29:33.0553 (UTC) FILETIME=[8F01FE10:01C5BEF3] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 662 Lines: 18 Friesen, Christopher [CAR:VC21:EXCH] wrote: > Trond Myklebust wrote: > >> ...and what is "an NFS filesystem"? v2, v3, v4, ...? > > > I think the root filesystem is v3. But as I mentioned, I just realized > the file manipulation was happening on a tmpfs filesystem. As a data point, the LTP test does not trigger the oom killer if /tmp is part of the root filesystem and not a separate tmpfs partition. 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/