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Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 15:24:47 +0100
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Chris Chabot <chabotc@reviewboard.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, marcelo@conectiva.com.br
Subject: Re: Unfreeable buffer/cache problem in 2.4.17-rc1 still there
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On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 01:36:11PM +0100, Chris Chabot wrote:
> inode_cache       686896 686896    480 85862 85862    1 :  124   62
> dentry_cache      696810 696810    128 23227 23227    1 :  252  126

this is an icache/dcache problem, can you reproduce on 2.4.17rc1aa1, it
will shrink more aggressively.

really to get an even better balance we should add the icache/dcache
slab pages into the lru as well... that would trigger the icache/dcache
flushes more easily when too much ram is in those caches.

Andrea
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