slabtop replacement was Re: Major regression on hackbench with SLUB (more numbers)

Andi Kleen
2007-12-22T19:45:34Z

As a followup to the thread regarding slabinfo and Andrew's
earlier query about updating slabtop.

watch -n1 slabinfo -S

seems to be a reasonable replacement for slabtop. The only
missing functionality are some hotkeys missing: you have to restart
now to get a different sort order (and to read the slabinfo source
to find out the correct option), but other than that it works.

So I would propose to just retire slabtop and replace
it with a simple shell script doing that.

A manpage for slabinfo would be useful though. Anybody
volunteering to write one?

-Andi