Re: inode_cache / dentry_cache not being reclaimed aggressivelyenough on low-memory PCs

[Alex Buell <alex.buell _at_ xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, Andrew Morton wrote:

> John Lash <jlash _at_ speakeasy.net> wrote:
> >
> > As it stands, it will maintain as many unused entries as there are used entries.
> >  If this low memory system las a large, stable, number of inuse dentry objects,
> >  the unused entries will match it thereby holding double the memory and possibly
> >  causing the problem you see.
> 
> Yup.   There is a fix in 2.6.1-rc1 for this.

Which change would that be? It would be nice to back-port that to 2.4.x if 
that's possible?

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