From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: slab fragmentation ? From: Badari Pulavarty In-Reply-To: <41617567.9010507@colorfullife.com> References: <1096500963.12861.21.camel@dyn318077bld.beaverton.ibm.com> <20040929204143.134154bc.akpm@osdl.org> <29460000.1096555795@[10.10.2.4]> <1096555693.12861.27.camel@dyn318077bld.beaverton.ibm.com> <415F968B.8000403@colorfullife.com> <1096905099.12861.117.camel@dyn318077bld.beaverton.ibm.com> <41617567.9010507@colorfullife.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1096911467.12861.119.camel@dyn318077bld.beaverton.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: 04 Oct 2004 10:37:48 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Manfred Spraul Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 09:08, Manfred Spraul wrote: > Badari Pulavarty wrote: > > >I will enable slab debugging. Someone told me that, by enabling slab > >debug, it fill force use of different slab for each allocation - there > >by bloating slab usages and mask the problem. Is it true ? > > > > > > > Then set STATS to 1. It's around line 118. This just adds full > statistics without changing the allocations. > Or even better: enable STATS and DEBUG, but not FORCED_DEBUG. You get > most internal consistance checks as well, except the tests that rely on > redzoning. Sure. Will do and get back to you end of day. I am in all day class :( Thanks, Badari -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org