Tom Carroll wrote:
>
> 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.
Once again, recent changes in the development tree vastly
improve icache usage. What version of XFS are you using?
A general request: Can you please include the XFS version
(1.0+ISO?/RPM?/PATCH?, CVS+date-of-cvs-update, kernel version
if applicable) when reporting problems?
thanks!
ananth.
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Rajagopal Ananthanarayanan ("ananth")
Member Technical Staff, SGI.
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