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From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: Ed Tomlinson <tomlins@cam.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm mailing list <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: ZONE_NORMAL exhaustion (dcache slab)
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 07:28:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2833019656.1035444511@[10.10.2.3]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200210240735.48973.tomlins@cam.org>

> I just experienced this problem on UP with 513M memory.  About 400m was 
> locked in dentries.  The system was very unresponsive - suspect it was
> spending gobs of time scaning unfreeable dentries.  This was with -mm3
> up about 24 hours.
> 
> The inode caches looked sane.  Just the dentries were out of wack.

I think you want this:

+read-barrier-depends.patch
 RCU fix

Which is only in mm4 I believe. Wanna retest? mm4 is the first 44-mmX
that works for me ... seems to have quite a few bugfixes ;-)

M.

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-24 14:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-21 20:40 Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-21 21:13 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-21 21:16   ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-21 21:33     ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-21 21:33       ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-21 21:49         ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-21 22:30         ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-21 22:53           ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-22  0:31             ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-22  3:39               ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-22  3:53                 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-22  4:20                   ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-22  5:49                     ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-22  6:21                       ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-22 16:13                         ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-24 11:35                   ` Ed Tomlinson
2002-10-24 14:28                     ` Martin J. Bligh [this message]
2002-10-22 16:33             ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-22 17:05               ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-22 16:21       ` Dipankar Sarma

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