Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755951Ab2JPT1e (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2012 15:27:34 -0400 Received: from a193-30.smtp-out.amazonses.com ([199.255.193.30]:3078 "EHLO a193-30.smtp-out.amazonses.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755838Ab2JPT1d (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2012 15:27:33 -0400 Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 19:27:31 +0000 From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: cl@gentwo.org To: Avleen Vig cc: David Rientjes , Pekka Enberg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Reading /proc/slabinfo causes stalls In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <0000013a6b0b92ae-fd5b1482-e870-4bbd-b5ac-de75b1b25177-000000@email.amazonses.com> References: <0000013a6ad64c95-106bab18-5a15-4c85-bae9-5527aa52f661-000000@email.amazonses.com> <0000013a6aee372f-add43c34-0cc1-4cdb-8ad1-730074b2b49b-000000@email.amazonses.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SES-Outgoing: 199.255.193.30 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 651 Lines: 16 On Tue, 16 Oct 2012, Avleen Vig wrote: > There were some concerns that it doesn't perform as well as SLAB on > large hardware (we're almost always running >16G RAM, and regularly > >96G RAM on things like memcache servers). > If the performance pans out, SLUB would be great. We have been using SLUB here for years with servers up to 256G RAM and 64 processors in both HPC and Enterprise environments. -- 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/