Re: SLUB 0:1 SLAB (OOM during massive parallel kernel builds)

[Pekka Enberg]

Hi,

On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > With SLAB this workload never went to OOM killer.
> > With SLUB and pretty much all debugging enabled, it finishes to the end
> > (albeit slowly).
> > With SLUB and no debugging, OOM killer kicks in.

On 10/23/07, Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Not sure what this is. Maybe the slowing SLUB solves the race.

What kind of race are you thinking of? What I initially thought was
that the problem is that SLUB messes up some other VM heuristics due
to different object sizes, not holding on to empty slabs, and/or page
allocator pass-through. I guess only object size is affected by
debugging, though?
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