Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266134AbUAGF02 (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jan 2004 00:26:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266135AbUAGF02 (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jan 2004 00:26:28 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:47257 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266134AbUAGF01 (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jan 2004 00:26:27 -0500 Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 21:26:34 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Alex Buell Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: /proc/slabinfo reports excessive size-64 objects Message-Id: <20040106212634.35bc41b5.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 856 Lines: 22 Alex Buell wrote: > > Both of my 2.4.23 boxes reports excessive size-64 objects > > 1) on my 512MB box, it's 3176370 3176442 64 53838 53838 1 > 2) on my 128MB box, it's 1223329 1223365 64 20735 20735 1 > > Is this really normal? Both boxes have been up for 2 days, but the 128MB > box is starting to show signs of getting slower and slower the more the > size-64 cache increases. It looks unusual. Are you running any less popular device drivers or networking configurations? We had a couple of ext3/htree leaks which did this in 2.6. Nothing else comes to mind. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/