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

[Alex Buell]

On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Andrew Morton wrote:

> 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.

Yup, it was an ext3/htree leak. I've been given a patch to test. 

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