> Thank you for responding so quickly. I took your > advice and ran the command you suggested. It seems > that inode_cache seems to continuously grow... as I > watch this command. dentry_cache follows too, but at a > much slower rate. What does this indicate?
This indicates that something on your system is slowly opening or creating lots of files. The inode and dentry caches have, roughly, one entry per referenced file. They are supposed to grow until RAM becomes almost filled, and they are then freed on a least-recently-used basis. This should not kill the system in any way, it's normal operation. Maybe the inode / dentry stuff was the most prominent slabs, but over time, something else becomes significant? best regards Patrick
