On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > > Ummm... all unreclaimable is set! Are you mlocking the pages in memory? Or > > what causes this? All pages under writeback? What is the dirty ratio set > > to? > > Why is SLUB behaving differently, though.
Nore sure. Are we really sure that this does not occur using SLAB? > Memory efficiency wouldn't be the reason, would it? I mean, SLUB > should be more efficient than SLAB, plus have less data lying around > in queues. SLAB may have data around in queues which (if the stars align the right way) may allow it to go longer without having to get a page from the page allocator. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
