From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from burns.conectiva (burns.conectiva [10.0.0.4]) by perninha.conectiva.com.br (Postfix) with SMTP id 09E35474B5 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 14:34:01 -0200 (BRST) Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 14:33:48 -0200 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: ZONE_NORMAL exhaustion (dcache slab) In-Reply-To: <3DB4855F.D5DA002E@digeo.com> 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: "Martin J. Bligh" , linux-kernel , linux-mm mailing list List-ID: On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Andrew Morton wrote: > He had 3 million dentries and only 100k pages on the LRU, > so we should have been reclaiming 60 dentries per scanned > page. > > Conceivably the multiply in shrink_slab() overflowed, where > we calculate local variable `delta'. But doubtful. What if there were no pages left to scan for shrink_caches ? Could it be possible that for some strange reason the machine ended up scanning 0 slab objects ? 60 * 0 is still 0, after all ;) Rik -- A: No. Q: Should I include quotations after my reply? http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ -- 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/