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Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 10:39:35 -0700
From: "Martin J. Bligh" <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>
Reply-To: "Martin J. Bligh" <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: severely bloated slabs
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To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org
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> 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.

As long as we give this up under memory pressure, why does this
matter?

M.

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