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
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