On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 3:34 AM, Glauber Costa <glommer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In the context of tracking kernel memory objects to a cgroup, the > following problem appears: we may need to destroy a cgroup, but > this does not guarantee that all objects inside the cache are dead. > This can't be guaranteed even if we shrink the cache beforehand. > > The simple option is to simply leave the cache around. However, > intensive workloads may have generated a lot of objects and thus > the dead cache will live in memory for a long while. Why is this a problem? Leaving the cache around while there are still active objects in it would certainly be a lot simpler to understand and implement. -- Suleiman -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe cgroups" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
