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Re: Memory consumption

To: Tom Carroll <tcarroll@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Memory consumption
From: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 10:50:42 -0500
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: Message from Tom Carroll <tcarroll@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> of "Thu, 24 May 2001 11:40:39 EDT." <20010524114039.A30044@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Hey everyone,
> 
> Here's the scenario:
> 
> I was backing up an XFS fs to a tape.  I was not able to complete
> the backup due to the high memory consumption of the xfs related caching.
> 
> It appears that every inode I touch is cached and once an inode is 
> cache it never expires.
> 
> Attached is log of /proc/slabinfo during a untarring of an archive
> onto a XFS fs.
> 

This should be fixed in the cvs tree (within the last few days). How
old is your kernel.

Steve



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