From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 21:59:30 +0100 (BST) From: Hugh Dickins Subject: Re: [Bug 3268] New: Lowmemory exhaustion problem with v2.6.8.1-mm4 16gb In-Reply-To: <20040825135308.2dae6a5d.akpm@osdl.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: kmannth@us.ibm.com, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Andrew Morton wrote: > Hugh Dickins wrote: > > > > (hmm, does lowmem shortage exert > > any pressure on highmem cache these days, I wonder?); > > It does, indirectly - when we reclaim an unused inode we also shoot down > all that inode's pagecache. Not much help in the tmpfs case, where the inode cannot get to be unused without being deleted. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org