Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Oct 2002 14:33:48 -0200 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: ZONE_NORMAL exhaustion (dcache slab) |
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On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:
> He had 3 million dentries and only 100k pages on the LRU, > so we should have been reclaiming 60 dentries per scanned > page. > > Conceivably the multiply in shrink_slab() overflowed, where > we calculate local variable `delta'. But doubtful.
What if there were no pages left to scan for shrink_caches ?
Could it be possible that for some strange reason the machine ended up scanning 0 slab objects ?
60 * 0 is still 0, after all ;)
Rik -- A: No. Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?
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