> - make all the things that shrink dentries (notably the
> shrink_dcache_memory() function) call the above function first.
>
> Does that fix the behaviour for you?
That will kill _all_ negative dentries whenever we get any amount of
memory pressure. For stuff a-la $PATH it will get very ugly - currently
we have a lot of negative dentries in /usr/local/bin that prevent tons
of bogus lookups there,
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