From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 10:53:39 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III Subject: Re: severely bloated slabs Message-ID: <20020730175339.GF29537@holomorphy.com> References: <20020730172341.GD29537@holomorphy.com> <649629297.1028025550@[10.10.2.3]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Description: brief message Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <649629297.1028025550@[10.10.2.3]> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "Martin J. Bligh" Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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 -- 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/