Re: Question about memory usage in 2.4 vs 2.2

From: Zou Min (zoum@comp.nus.edu.sg)
Date: Wed Mar 21 2001 - 05:56:45 EST


> > Lastly, which cache can be reclaimed, and which can't?
>
> Slab cache will shrink if there are whole pages which are empty (it may
> be that they have to be at the end of the cache). It is hard to tell
> from the above numbers if any of the caches could shrink, because it
> depends on the number of objects per page, and if there are any whole
> pages without allocated objects.

Btw, how to know the size of each objects in different cache?

-- 
Cheers!
--Zou Min 
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