Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264588AbUFPTAh (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jun 2004 15:00:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264542AbUFPTAh (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jun 2004 15:00:37 -0400 Received: from dbl.q-ag.de ([213.172.117.3]:41629 "EHLO dbl.q-ag.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264530AbUFPS7W (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jun 2004 14:59:22 -0400 Message-ID: <40D09872.4090107@colorfullife.com> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 20:58:58 +0200 From: Manfred Spraul User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr-FR; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dimitri Sivanich CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lse-tech , linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Option to run cache reap in thread mode References: <40D08225.6060900@colorfullife.com> <20040616180208.GD6069@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20040616180208.GD6069@sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 677 Lines: 26 Dimitri Sivanich wrote: >>Do you use the default batchcount values or have you increased the values? >> >> > >Default. > > > Could you try to reduce them? Something like (as root) # cd /proc # cat slabinfo | gawk '{printf("echo \"%s %d %d %d\" > /proc/slabinfo\n", $1,$9,4,2);}' | bash If this doesn't help then perhaps the timer should run more frequently and scan only a part of the list of slab caches. -- Manfred - 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/