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SubjectRe: dentry cache leak? Re: rsync out of memory 2.6.8-rc2
Andrew Morton wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
>
>> Something like this (totally untested, may not compile, you get the idea)
>> might work. Or not. Since the _rest_ of "shrink_slab()" doesn't know about
>> zonelists, just making the "how many pages does this zone have free" take
>> the zonelist into account might cause other problems.
>
>
> No, I think it'll be OK. Problems in this area tend to be subtle, and take
> time to appear. But I think this one is pretty safe.
>

Yeah it is better than what we had before. It now has failure cases
going the other way, but I like this for a non intrusive fix.
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