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SubjectRe: No, really, stop trying to delete slab until you've finished making slub perform as well
On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Christoph Lameter
<cl@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
>
>> When hackbench running, SLUB consume memory very largely than SLAB.
>> then, SLAB often outperform SLUB in memory stavation state.
>>
>> I don't know why memory comsumption different.
>> Anyone know it?
>
> Can you quantify the difference?
>
> SLAB buffers objects in its queues. SLUB does rely more on the page allocator.
> So SLAB may have its own reserves to fall back on.

Also, what kind of machine are we talking about here? If there are a
lot of CPUs, SLUB will allocate higher order pages more aggressively
than SLAB by default.


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