Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266174AbUAGJ66 (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jan 2004 04:58:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266175AbUAGJ65 (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jan 2004 04:58:57 -0500 Received: from cpc1-cosh4-5-0-cust84.cos2.cable.ntl.com ([81.96.30.84]:46720 "EHLO slut.local.munted.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266174AbUAGJ6t (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jan 2004 04:58:49 -0500 Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 09:58:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Alex Buell X-X-Sender: alex@slut.local.munted.org.uk To: Andrew Morton cc: Mailing List - Linux Kernel Subject: Re: /proc/slabinfo reports excessive size-64 objects In-Reply-To: <20040106212634.35bc41b5.akpm@osdl.org> Message-ID: References: <20040106212634.35bc41b5.akpm@osdl.org> X-no-archive: yes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1059 Lines: 30 On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Andrew Morton wrote: > 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. Yup, it was an ext3/htree leak. I've been given a patch to test. -- http://www.munted.org.uk Your mother cooks socks in hell - 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/