Re: dentry_cache using up all my zone normal memory -- also seen on 2.6.14-rc2

["Christopher Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>]

Sonny Rao wrote:

> Over one million files open at once is just asking for trouble on a
> lowmem-crippled x86 machine, IMHO.
I don't think there actually are.  I ran the testcase under strace, and 
it appears that there are two threads going at once.
thread 1 spins doing the following:
fd = creat("./rename14", 0666);
unlink("./rename14");
close(fd);

thread 2 spins doing:
rename("./rename14", "./rename14xyz");

Chris
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