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Subject: Re: 2.4.16 memory badness (reproducible) 
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Ken Brownfield wrote:

|   This parallels what I'm seeing -- perhaps inode/dentry cache
|   bloat is causing the memory issue (which mimics if not _is_
|   a memory leak) _and_ my kswapd thrashing?  It fits both the
|   situation you report and what I'm seeing with I/O across a
|   large number of files (inodes) -- updatedb, smb, NFS, etc.
|
|   I think Andrea was on to this issue, so I'm hoping his work
|   will help.  Have you tried an -aa kernel or an aa patch onto
|   a 2.4.17-pre4 to see how the kernel's behavior changes?
|   
|   -- 
|   Ken.
|   brownfld@irridia.com

I get the exact same behavior with 2.4.17-pre4-aa1 - many applications
abort with ENOMEM after updatedb (filling the buffer and cache). Is
there another kernel/patch I should try?

Leigh Orf

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