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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 14:33:35 -0700
From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
Subject: Re: ZONE_NORMAL exhaustion (dcache slab)
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>> Nope, kept OOMing and killing everything .
> 
> Something broke.

Even I worked that out ;-) 

> Blockdevices only use ZONE_NORMAL for their pagecache.  That cat will
> selectively put pressure on the normal zone (and DMA zone, of course).

Ah, I recall that now. That's fundamentally screwed.
  
>> Will try again. Presumably "find /" should do it? ;-)
> 
> You must have a lot of files.

Nothing too ridiculous. Will try find on a small subset repeatedly and see if
it keeps growing first - maybe that'll show a leak.
 
Thanks,

M.

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