Re: Large slab cache in 2.6.1

Chris Wedgwood
2004-02-22T03:31:15Z

On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 07:28:24PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> What happened to the experiment of having slab pages on the
> (in)active lists and letting them be free'd that way? Didn't
> somebody already do that? Ed Tomlinson and Craig Kulesa?

Just as a data point:

cw@taniwha:~/wk/linux/bk-2.5.x$ grep -E '(LowT|Slab)' /proc/meminfo
LowTotal: 898448 kB
Slab: 846260 kB

So the slab pressure I have right now is simply because there is
nowhere else it has to grow...