On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 6:30 AM, Glauber Costa <glommer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > But there is another aspect: those dead caches have one thing in common, > which is the fact that no new objects will ever be allocated on them. You > can't tune them, or do anything with them. I believe it is misleading to > include them in slabinfo. > > The fact that the caches change names - to append "dead" may also break > tools, if that is what you are concerned about. > > For all the above, I think a better semantics for slabinfo is to include the > active caches, and leave the dead ones somewhere else. Can these "dead caches" still hold on to physical memory? If so, they must appear in /proc/slabinfo. -- 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
