Re: inode cache, dentry cache, buffer heads usage

[Andrew Morton]

Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> So, why is these slab cache are not getting purged/shrinked even
>  under memory pressure ? (I have seen lowmem as low as 6MB). What
>  can I do to keep the machine healthy ?

Tried increasing /proc/sys/vm/vfs_cache_pressure?  (That might not be in
2.6.8 though).

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