Re: ext3 inode cache eats system, news at 11

[Andrew Morton]

Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
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