On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 6:30 AM, Glauber Costa <[email protected]> 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. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] https://openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
