Re: [PATCH 00/16] The new slab memory controller

[Michal Hocko]

On Tue 22-10-19 15:22:06, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Thu 17-10-19 17:28:04, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> [...]
> > Using a drgn* script I've got an estimation of slab utilization on
> > a number of machines running different production workloads. In most
> > cases it was between 45% and 65%, and the best number I've seen was
> > around 85%. Turning kmem accounting off brings it to high 90s. Also
> > it brings back 30-50% of slab memory. It means that the real price
> > of the existing slab memory controller is way bigger than a pointer
> > per page.
> 
> How much of the memory are we talking about here?

Just to be more specific. Your cover mentions several hundreds of MBs
but there is no scale to the overal charged memory. How much of that is
the actual kmem accounted memory.

> Also is there any pattern for specific caches that tend to utilize
> much worse than others?

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs