On Mon, 2013-03-25 at 14:34 +0000, Christoph Lameter wrote: > You can eliminate the whole thing by setting > > /sys/kernel/slab/<whatever/cpu_partial > > to zero. Giving you an update. I did the following: # ls /sys/kernel/slab/*/cpu_partial | while read f; do echo 0 > $f done Then ran our test suite for 24 hours, and had a max latency of 135 microseconds. Well within our range for such a machine. Seems this is definitely the cause of our latencies, as before, we would always trigger a unacceptable latency within 12 hours. Thanks for your help! -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html