Re: 64-bit kdev_t - just for playing

William Lee Irwin III (wli@holomorphy.com)
Mon, 31 Mar 2003 15:54:31 -0800


On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 03:41:50PM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> 2) sysfs inode use up 50 MB of low memory
> - 4000 disks without partitions create (4000 * 35) = 140,000 inodes in
> /sysfs. So, it uses 50 MB of lowmem.
> 3) dcache is eating up 25 MB of low memory.

These are actually the same thing (the inode pinning references are
actually held by the dentries IIRC). shaggy and I are brewing up
something to show to gregkh and mochel in the near future.

-- wli
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