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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0609080933390.1700@pcgl.dsa-ac.de> Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 09:38:59 +0200 (CEST) From: Guennadi Liakhovetski <gl@...-ac.de> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org> Cc: sct@...hat.com, adilger@...sterfs.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6.18-rc6] ext3 memory leak On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, Andrew Morton wrote: > It is expected that in this situation the number of buffer_head objects will > be approximately equal to the number of pagecache pages. So once the pagecache > has grown to consume all available memory and the kernel starts to perform pagecache > reclaim, the buffer_head count should stabilise. Ok, thanks that's exactly what I had to know - makes sense now. Sorry for a false alarm. Thanks Guennadi --------------------------------- Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D. DSA Daten- und Systemtechnik GmbH Pascalstr. 28 D-52076 Aachen Germany - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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