> On 27 Nov 2014, at 11:26, Hans-Werner Paulsen <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> On 11/26/2014 09:15 PM, Andrew Deason wrote:
>> On Wed, 26 Nov 2014 10:51:00 +0100
>> Hans-Werner Paulsen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Checking the machine I see more than 5 million of afs_inode_cache slab
>>> entries. Is this normal? Any hint how to proceed?
>> That's not unusual if you are accessing a lot of files (say, about 5
>> million recently accessed). But having a lot of vcaches in memory can
>> cause certain operations to be slow; there was a fix just added in
>> 1.6.10 to improve speed for a background cleanup process with lots of
>> files (well, and PAGs): 94f1d4.
> Yesterday, on another machine I created and deleted 4 million files on AFS. 
> The number of afs_inode_cache slabs grew from 1 million to 5 million. Today 
> there are still 5 million entries.

It should shrink when there's memory pressure. If you're still worried, there's 
the -disable-dynamic-vcaches switch for afsd.

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