Adding netdev for a bigger audience. On Tuesday, February 26, 2013 6:18:48 PM, Prashant Batra wrote:
Hi All, I have created few memory cache areas using "kmem_cache_create" and using it to allocate some memory. What I observe after some cache_alloc's and cache_free's is that /proc/slabinfo entries for my objects are good, meaning the number of objects go back to 0 after they are freed. But linux "free" command shows that some of the objects are cached and that keeps on increasing. I am not able to understand this behavior. Is it that kernel keeps the cache objects even after they are freed? #cat /proc/slabinfo my_cache 200 200 4096 1 1 : tunables 24 12 8 : slabdata 200 200 0 It shows 200 allocated objects from "my_cache" and #free -lm total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 48340 610 47730 0 96 130 the cached objects keep on growing. After 5 mins in which I am doing some alloc and free- total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 48340 616 47723 0 96 137 /proc/slabinfo remains the same. Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Prashant
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