Re: Large slab cache in 2.6.1

[Nick Piggin]

Nick Piggin wrote:

> Chris Wedgwood wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 07:28:24PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> >
> > > What happened to the experiment of having slab pages on the
> > > (in)active lists and letting them be free'd that way? Didn't
> > > somebody already do that? Ed Tomlinson and Craig Kulesa?
> >
> > Just as a data point:
> >
> > cw@taniwha:~/wk/linux/bk-2.5.x$ grep -E '(LowT|Slab)' /proc/meminfo
> > LowTotal:       898448 kB
> > Slab:           846260 kB
> >
> > So the slab pressure I have right now is simply because there is
> > nowhere else it has to grow...
>
> Can you try the following patch? It is against 2.6.3-mm2.

Actually I think the previous shrink_slab formula factors
out to the right thing anyway, so nevermind this patch :P

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