Re: repeated failed open()'s results in lots of used memory [Was:

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Wed, 1 Aug 2001 21:23:53 -0400 (EDT)


On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> However, I'd like to see what the patch does for the bad case first, and
> then we can see whether there are less drastic methods (like only killing
> half of the negative dentries or something).

Removing the "second chance" logics for negative dentries might be a good
start...

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