From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: "Martin J. Bligh" <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: severely bloated slabs
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 10:53:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020730175339.GF29537@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <649629297.1028025550@[10.10.2.3]>
At some point in the past, I wrote:
>> 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.
On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 10:39:35AM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> As long as we give this up under memory pressure, why does this
> matter?
Mostly a question of response time and long idle times being a good
indicator of upcoming workload shifts. I'd say it's behaving as
designed, but not as desired.
Cheers,
Bill
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-30 17:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-30 17:23 William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-30 17:39 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-07-30 17:53 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2002-07-31 0:13 ` Ed Tomlinson
2002-08-01 18:15 ` William Lee Irwin III
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