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Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au> wrote: > > >Was it a highmem box? If so, was the filesystem in question placing > >directory pagecache in highmem? If so, that was really bad on older 2.4: > >the directory pagecache in highmem pins down all directory inodes. > > > > > > 2.6.2-mm1 should fix this I think. 2.6.anything should fix it. It used to, anyway. > In particular, this hunk in vm-shrink-zone.patch That's on the direct reclaim path - for sane workloads most of the freeing activity is via kswapd. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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