Andi,
Thanks for this note. This will help greatly. Is there anything that I
can do to resolve this issue? A patch or something in /proc perhaps?
On Tue, 2002-01-22 at 15:56, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 03:05:55PM -0600, Steve Lord wrote:
> > On Tue, 2002-01-22 at 15:04, Austin Gonyou wrote:
> > > Scratch that...it just dropped back down about an hour ago. I wonder
> why
> > > that would be? I mounted a loopback device around that time. Could
> that
> > > have anything to do with it?
> >
> > About the only thing which would shrink it is a memory shortage, one
> > of the things this can cause is a shrink of the inode cache.
>
> It's a known problem in 2.4 that it keeps too many dentries/inodes in
> memory
> around. It shouldn't keep more inodes than dentries for example, but
> it does after some stress. It's one of the things that didn't get fixed
> in t
> he VM rewrite. Fortunately it doesn't have too many bad effects except
> for
> some wasted memory and longer lookup times for inodes due to overlong
> hash
> chains.
>
> -Andi
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