Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > If my understanding is right, inode cache shrinker only frees the > > reclaimable inodes, which means, if a lot of files are opened when > > shrinker is activated, the shrinker may not find sufficient > > reclaimable inodes to free enough space. What will Linux do under such > > condition? > > Userspace will start to be swapped out to make room for kernel memory. > And if the swap is full, the OOM killer comes into action and will kill > programs. The OOM-killing spree starts way before swap is full :( see "swapping and oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x201d2, order=0" thread. Thanks! -- Al - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
