Re: ZONE_NORMAL exhaustion (dcache slab)

[Martin J. Bligh]

>> Nope, kept OOMing and killing everything .
> 
> Something broke.

Even I worked that out ;-) 

> Blockdevices only use ZONE_NORMAL for their pagecache.  That cat will
> selectively put pressure on the normal zone (and DMA zone, of course).

Ah, I recall that now. That's fundamentally screwed.
  
>> Will try again. Presumably "find /" should do it? ;-)
> 
> You must have a lot of files.

Nothing too ridiculous. Will try find on a small subset repeatedly and see if
it keeps growing first - maybe that'll show a leak.
 
Thanks,

M.