Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Apr 2004 21:02:37 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: ext3 inode cache eats system, news at 11 |
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Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote: > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.6-rc2/2.6.6-rc2-mm2/broken-out/slab-order-0-for-vfs-caches.patch > > > > is not a completely happy solution, but it should fix things up. > > Another thing you could be doing is not zeroing swapper->nr > if the shrinker function doesn't do anything, in order to try > to maintain pressure on the dcache. This would be similar to > your deferred list idea.
Am now doing this.
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.6-rc2/2.6.6-rc2-mm2/broken-out/shrink_slab-handle-GFP_NOFS.patch - 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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