Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964948AbVJDUDF (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Oct 2005 16:03:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964949AbVJDUDE (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Oct 2005 16:03:04 -0400 Received: from zctfs063.nortelnetworks.com ([47.164.128.120]:5299 "EHLO zctfs063.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964948AbVJDUDC (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Oct 2005 16:03:02 -0400 Message-ID: <4342DFDF.9010206@nortel.com> Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 14:02:39 -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: Al Viro , Roland Dreier , Sonny Rao , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Theodore Ts'o" , bharata@in.ibm.com, trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no Subject: Re: dentry_cache using up all my zone normal memory -- also seen on 2.6.14-rc2 References: <4331B89B.3080107@nortel.com> <20050921200758.GA25362@kevlar.burdell.org> <4331C9B2.5070801@nortel.com> <20050921210019.GF4569@in.ibm.com> <4331CFAD.6020805@nortel.com> <52ll1qkrii.fsf@cisco.com> <20050922031136.GE7992@ftp.linux.org.uk> <43322AE6.1080408@nortel.com> <20050922041733.GF7992@ftp.linux.org.uk> <4332CAEA.1010509@nortel.com> <20051004194349.GA6039@in.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20051004194349.GA6039@in.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Oct 2005 20:02:45.0197 (UTC) FILETIME=[95F4AFD0:01C5C91E] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 780 Lines: 21 Dipankar Sarma wrote: > Since then, I have done some testing myself, but I can't reproduce > this problem in two of my systems - x86 and x86_64. I ran rename14 > in a loop too, but after exhausting a lot of free memory, dcache > does get shrunk and I don't see dentries stuck in RCU queues at all. > I tried UP kernel too. I've only managed to reproduce it on a UP system with HIGHMEM. > So, there must be something else in your system that I > am missing in my setup. Could you please mail me your .config ? Sent privately. 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/