From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: severely bloated slabs
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 10:23:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020730172341.GD29537@holomorphy.com> (raw)
12 hours after running dbench, tiobench, and a couple of others:
cache active alloc %util
buffer_head: 3781KB 132278KB 2.85
pte_chain: 46KB 520KB 8.98
dentry_cache: 8256KB 47662KB 17.32
vm_area_struct: 226KB 817KB 27.75
bio: 98KB 295KB 33.26
biovec-1: 25KB 75KB 33.45
size-32: 377KB 1098KB 34.38
size-64: 251KB 700KB 35.93
proc_inode_cache: 517KB 1157KB 44.74
task_struct: 788KB 1697KB 46.47
size-4096: 2480KB 5240KB 47.32
signal_act: 688KB 1379KB 49.86
skbuff_head_cache: 384KB 738KB 52.3
tcp_sock: 465KB 767KB 60.63
radix_tree_node: 9533KB 14851KB 64.18
files_cache: 487KB 677KB 71.96
sock_inode_cache: 248KB 341KB 72.74
sgpool-8: 195KB 255KB 76.83
size-2048: 1132KB 1372KB 82.50
size-256: 606KB 701KB 86.52
tcp_open_request: 54KB 62KB 87.43
132MB of ZONE_NORMAL on a 16GB i386 box tied up in buffer_head slabs
when all of 3% of it is in use gives me the willies. Periodic slab
pruning anyone? Might be useful in addition to slab-in-lru.
Cheers,
Bill
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next reply other threads:[~2002-07-30 17:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-30 17:23 William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2002-07-30 17:39 ` severely bloated slabs Martin J. Bligh
2002-07-30 17:53 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-31 0:13 ` Ed Tomlinson
2002-08-01 18:15 ` William Lee Irwin III
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