Re: Unfreeable buffer/cache problem in 2.4.17-rc1 still there

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Sat, 15 Dec 2001 15:24:47 +0100


On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 01:36:11PM +0100, Chris Chabot wrote:
> inode_cache 686896 686896 480 85862 85862 1 : 124 62
> dentry_cache 696810 696810 128 23227 23227 1 : 252 126

this is an icache/dcache problem, can you reproduce on 2.4.17rc1aa1, it
will shrink more aggressively.

really to get an even better balance we should add the icache/dcache
slab pages into the lru as well... that would trigger the icache/dcache
flushes more easily when too much ram is in those caches.

Andrea
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