Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755019AbXKFGQI (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Nov 2007 01:16:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752232AbXKFGP4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Nov 2007 01:15:56 -0500 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.180]:57900 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750741AbXKFGPz (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Nov 2007 01:15:55 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=t0LsYAH9bVu3HTvYZ17io9+KeF2ZGrthJM/OUDdRMUvbsvSwh+fMZEVFFxN/ohGO5dtAhY/y7UUVegIOG045tE9xPc3DC+cjji7Sv8ZF+S4vCrjln6IYuvavSYbrNBDrDkqG2OxC/BYiG5NXPwwjzrRS3lxZgGF8Q8aSlYhVaUA= Message-ID: Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 14:15:54 +0800 From: "Jeff Chua" To: "Christoph Lameter" Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] slub: fix leakage Cc: "Hugh Dickins" , "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Oliv=E9r_Pint=E9r?=" , "Linus Torvalds" , "Andrew Morton" , "Willy Tarreau" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 652 Lines: 15 On Nov 6, 2007 2:45 AM, Christoph Lameter wrote: > 1. We can avoid going back to the page allocator for awhile since we will > find the almost free slab if the current slab is exhausted. Does this impact SLAB as well? I'm getting out of memory with kernel 2.6.21, 2.6.22 and 2.6.23, so I'm stuck with 2.6.20-15 for systems running Oracle. It only happens with lots of activities. Jeff. - 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/