From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755795Ab0IHQ7d (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2010 12:59:33 -0400 Received: from waste.org ([173.11.57.241]:37750 "EHLO waste.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752627Ab0IHQ7b (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2010 12:59:31 -0400 Subject: Re: 2.6.36-rc2 : slabtop report 10170292 size-32 objects... From: Matt Mackall To: Paul Rolland Cc: Pekka Enberg , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Christoph Lameter , Dave Airlie In-Reply-To: <20100901115507.705fe5e4@tux.DEF.witbe.net> References: <20100901113525.04b356c5@tux.DEF.witbe.net> <20100901115507.705fe5e4@tux.DEF.witbe.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:59:27 -0500 Message-ID: <1283965167.2964.17.camel@calx> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 11:55 +0200, Paul Rolland wrote: > Hi Pekka, > > On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 12:41:59 +0300 > Pekka Enberg wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Paul Rolland wrote: > > > I was surprised to see my machine using so much swap when I couldn't > > > find where all the memory was gone, and I checked quickly what slabtop > > > had to say, and found that one : > > > > > > OBJS ACTIVE USE OBJ SIZE SLABS OBJ/SLAB CACHE SIZE NAME > > > 10172288 10171996 99% 0.03K 90824 112 363296K size-32 > > > > > > > Might be related to this: > > > > http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2010/8/25/4611329 > > Yes, considering that lspci also confirms my machine has some common points > with Matt's one : For the record, I'm using a conventional 2D window manager so the leak is somewhere in that path. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.