Re: [POLL] SLAB : Are the 32 and 192 bytes caches really usefull on x86_64 machines ?

Dave Jones
2005-12-21T16:41:14Z

On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 03:09:02PM +0100, Folkert van Heusden wrote:

> > Your results are interesting : size-32 seems to use objects of size 64 !
> > > size-32 1538 2714 64 <<HERE>>
> > So I guess that size-32 cache could be avoided at least for EMT (I take you
> > run a 64 bits kernel ?)
>
> I think I do yes:
> Linux xxxxx 2.4.21-37.EL #1 SMP Wed Sep 7 13:32:18 EDT 2005 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> It is a redhat 4 x64 system.

Looks more like RHEL3 judging from the kernel version.

Dave