Re: dentry cache leak? Re: rsync out of memory 2.6.8-rc2

[Klaus Dittrich]

Nick Piggin wrote:

> Klaus Dittrich wrote:
>
> > Klaus Dittrich wrote:
>
>
> > > I did a test with a value of 500. echo 500 > 
> > > /proc/sys/vm/vfs_cache_pressure.
> > >
> > > The highest numbers a cat /proc/sys/fs/dentry-state then showed during
> > > a du -s were
> > > 780721  750505  45      0       0       0
> > >
> > > The system survied. No processes were killed.
> > >
> > > With vfs_cache_pressure=100 a cat /proc/sys/fs/dentry-state showed
> > > numbers of about 1090000 before processes got killed.
> > >
> > > Hope that helps to narrow the region to look for what has changed.
> > PS. Two concurrent du -s however "kernel: Out of Memory: Killed 
> > process .." *
> > *
>
>
> Your vfs_cache_pressure probably wants to be higher than 500. Make it 
> 10000.

*No problems when using 10000.
But I think of this as workaround only.

I have read the "Scaling dcache with RCU" article from linuxjournal.com
to get some insight how things should work. Pretty complicated.

I added some printk statements in dcache.c to see what functions
actually get called to shink a dcache during a du -s.
The only one I found is prune_dcache().
Which events should trigger the use of d_invalidate() ?


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