[/me sneaks away from the family] On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 01:00:09PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, Theodore Tso wrote: > > > But sometimes when trying to eyeball what is going on, it's a lot > > > nicer just to use "cat /proc/slabinfo". > > > > .. and I call BS on this claim. > > [...] > > I can understand that it has to go away for technical reasons, but Ted > is right, please don't believe that nobody uses it just because you got > no complaint. While people are not likely to perform all computations > in scripts, at least they're used to find some quickly identifiable > patterns there. > I know when I'm looking for memory leaks, I've asked customers to give snapshots of slabinfo at periodic times (once a day even, matters how bad the leak is). This has been helpful in seeing if something did indeed leak. If you have a slab cache that constantly grows, and never shrinks, that's a good indication that something might be leaking. Not always, since there can be legitimate reasons for that, but sometimes it helps. But I still scratch my head when ever I need to touch sysfs. [/me runs back to the family] -- Steve -- 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/
