Ah yes... I was doing that for testing something else and forgot to unmount. Does that
explain the large jump?
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are you running with MDS + client on the same node?
thanks, Alex
On Dec 4, 2013, at 4:25 PM, Daire Byrne <daire(a)dneg.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been playing around with setting vfs_cache_pressure=0 on our v2.4.1
> MDS and noticed that the dentry usage as reported from slabtop looks very
> odd. It seems to remain pretty much the same for long periods of time and
> then jumps up suddenly. I have attached a graph of
> ldiskfs_inode_cache,dentry and buffer_head.
>
>
https://db.tt/DSxKl5gm
>
> Is the dentry usage tracked in some other slab? The server ran out of
> memory not long after the dentry count jumped up. What I'm interesting in
> doing is track slab usage and toggle vfs_cache_pressure to avoid running
> out of memory whilst maximising the inode/dentry cache.
>
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