Re: /proc/slabinfo reports excessive size-64 objects

[Andrew Morton]

Alex Buell <alex.buell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Both of my 2.4.23 boxes reports excessive size-64 objects 
> 
> 1) on my 512MB box, it's  3176370 3176442     64 53838 53838    1 
> 2) on my 128MB box, it's  1223329 1223365     64 20735 20735	1
> 
> Is this really normal? Both boxes have been up for 2 days, but the 128MB
> box is starting to show signs of getting slower and slower the more the
> size-64 cache increases.

It looks unusual.  Are you running any less popular device drivers or
networking configurations?

We had a couple of ext3/htree leaks which did this in 2.6.  Nothing else
comes to mind.

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