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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
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Subject: Re: ZONE_NORMAL exhaustion (dcache slab)
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"Martin J. Bligh" wrote:
> 
> My big NUMA box went OOM over the weekend and started killing things
> for no good reason (2.5.43-mm2). Probably running some background
> updatedb for locate thing, not doing any real work.
> 
> meminfo:
> 

Looks like a plain dentry leak to me.  Very weird.

Did the machine recover and run normally?

Was it possible to force the dcache to shrink? (a cat /dev/hda1
would do that nicely)

Is it reproducible?
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