From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from wli by holomorphy with local (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17Zaij-0000VM-00 for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 10:23:41 -0700 Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 10:23:41 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III Subject: severely bloated slabs Message-ID: <20020730172341.GD29537@holomorphy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Description: brief message Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 12 hours after running dbench, tiobench, and a couple of others: cache active alloc %util buffer_head: 3781KB 132278KB 2.85 pte_chain: 46KB 520KB 8.98 dentry_cache: 8256KB 47662KB 17.32 vm_area_struct: 226KB 817KB 27.75 bio: 98KB 295KB 33.26 biovec-1: 25KB 75KB 33.45 size-32: 377KB 1098KB 34.38 size-64: 251KB 700KB 35.93 proc_inode_cache: 517KB 1157KB 44.74 task_struct: 788KB 1697KB 46.47 size-4096: 2480KB 5240KB 47.32 signal_act: 688KB 1379KB 49.86 skbuff_head_cache: 384KB 738KB 52.3 tcp_sock: 465KB 767KB 60.63 radix_tree_node: 9533KB 14851KB 64.18 files_cache: 487KB 677KB 71.96 sock_inode_cache: 248KB 341KB 72.74 sgpool-8: 195KB 255KB 76.83 size-2048: 1132KB 1372KB 82.50 size-256: 606KB 701KB 86.52 tcp_open_request: 54KB 62KB 87.43 132MB of ZONE_NORMAL on a 16GB i386 box tied up in buffer_head slabs when all of 3% of it is in use gives me the willies. Periodic slab pruning anyone? Might be useful in addition to slab-in-lru. Cheers, Bill -- 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/