Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 11:21:14 -0800 (PST)
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU>
cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>,
       Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
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       LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
       "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Subject: Re: Major regression on hackbench with SLUB (more numbers)
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On Sun, 23 Dec 2007, Theodore Tso wrote:

> > tends to work reasonably well for a quick overview, but yes
> > cat was nicer for humans.
> 
> Until you start to wonder what the heck :a-0000136 is:
> 
> /sys/slab/:a-0000136/objs_per_slab: 30
> 
> Sigh...

That is why there is a slabinfo tool that does all the nice formatting.

Do a

gcc -o slabinfo Documentation/vm/slabinfo.c 

Then run slabinfo instead of doing cat /proc/slabinfo


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