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, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>