Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965102AbVIUWDn (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Sep 2005 18:03:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965103AbVIUWDn (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Sep 2005 18:03:43 -0400 Received: from ams-iport-1.cisco.com ([144.254.224.140]:24656 "EHLO ams-iport-1.cisco.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965102AbVIUWDm (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Sep 2005 18:03:42 -0400 To: "Christopher Friesen" Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com, 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 X-Message-Flag: Warning: May contain useful information 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> <4331CFAD.6020805@nortel.com> From: Roland Dreier Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 15:03:33 -0700 In-Reply-To: <4331CFAD.6020805@nortel.com> (Christopher Friesen's message of "Wed, 21 Sep 2005 15:25:01 -0600") Message-ID: <52ll1qkrii.fsf@cisco.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.4.17 (Jumbo Shrimp, linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 Sep 2005 22:03:34.0904 (UTC) FILETIME=[4FBF6F80:01C5BEF8] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 473 Lines: 12 Christopher> Digging in a bit more, it looks like the files are Christopher> being created/destroyed/renamed in /tmp, which is a Christopher> tmpfs filesystem. Hmm... could there be a race in shmem_rename()?? - R. - 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/