Re: Kernel memory profiling

Steve Dodd (dirk@loth.demon.co.uk)
Tue, 4 May 1999 22:33:56 +0100


On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 04:00:27PM +0200, Joerg Henne wrote:

> Unfortunately the information from /proc/slabinfo hasn't given me deeper
> insights yet, and I have not yet understood the code (but I must confess that
> I haven't banged my head very hard against it, yet).

What's happening to the ``Networking buffers in use'' output from Alt+SysRq+M
over time. Looking at /proc/slabinfo, I'd expect it to be *huge*. Its 4 on
my system at the moment :)

This looks like it could be a job for Alan :-)

S.

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