Re: My memory is rusty

Sid Boyce (linker@nightshade.ml.org)
Sun, 19 Apr 1998 14:56:21 -0400 (EDT)


On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Bill Metzenthen wrote:

[snippity, it's so good to be right]
> Someone suggested that I have a look at /proc/slabinfo. I did this
> and the only thing which looks significantly changed between the tests
> in 2.1.96 are:
> -size-128 746 756
> +size-128 4368 4396
> size-64 91 100
> -size-32 593 672
> +size-32 4215 4284
>
> I don't know what these are. A quick scan of the sources didn't tell
> me a great deal. Can someone interpret this

I dont know tons about the slapallocator.. But..

((4368 - 748)*128)+((4215-593)*32)=579264

So that would be an additional 565.7k of locked kernel memory..

> The question now is: can the performance in the 2.1.xx kernels be
> fixed?

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