Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 06 Feb 2004 14:38:49 +1100 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: Limit hash table size |
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Andrew Morton wrote:
>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. > > >
OK - he said the try to free pages path was being called but maybe he didn't actually mean try_to_free_pages.
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