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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
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On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 03:41:50PM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> 2) sysfs inode use up 50 MB of low memory
>         - 4000 disks without partitions create (4000 * 35) = 140,000 inodes in 
> /sysfs.  So, it uses 50 MB of lowmem. 
> 3) dcache is eating up 25 MB of low memory.

These are actually the same thing (the inode pinning references are
actually held by the dentries IIRC). shaggy and I are brewing up
something to show to gregkh and mochel in the near future.


-- wli