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From: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
To: Zhang Zhen <zhenzhang.zhang@huawei.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	qiuxishi@huawei.com
Subject: Re: Why task_struct slab can't be released back to buddy system?
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 12:58:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fv7j9p6f.fsf@rasmusvillemoes.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55408462.6010703@huawei.com> (Zhang Zhen's message of "Wed, 29 Apr 2015 15:12:34 +0800")

On Wed, Apr 29 2015, Zhang Zhen <zhenzhang.zhang@huawei.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Our x86 system has crashed because oom.
> We found task_struct slabs ate much memory.

I can't explain what you've seen, but a simple way to reduce the
memory footprint of struct task_struct is

CONFIG_LATENCYTOP=n

That will reduce sizeof(struct task_struct) by ~3840 bytes (60%, give or
take).

Rasmus

> CACHE    	  NAME                 OBJSIZE  ALLOCATED     TOTAL  SLABS  SSIZE          //**Slabs is much larger than alloctated object counts**
> ffff88081e007500 task_struct             6528       4639    229775  45955    32k

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-29 10:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-29  7:12 Zhang Zhen
2015-04-29 10:58 ` Rasmus Villemoes [this message]
2015-04-30  1:29   ` Zhang Zhen

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