Re: Large slab cache in 2.6.1

[Chris Wedgwood]

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...


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