linux-kernel - Re: How to find slab\'s usage?

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Message-ID: <84144f020710130110r6b13389aj43bb7b79ecd5e1b7@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 13 Oct 2007 11:10:19 +0300
From:	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	"Tetsuo Handa" <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Christoph Lameter" <clameter@....com>,
	"Albert Cahalan" <acahalan@...il.com>
Subject: Re: How to find slab\'s usage?

Hi,

On 10/12/07, Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp> wrote:
> > > I saw /proc/meminfo and it seems to me that slab is leaking memory.
> > > But /usr/bin/slabtop claims /proc/slabinfo is missing.

At some point in time, I wrote:
> > Do you have CONFIG_SLUB enabled? Try looking into /sys/slab/.

On 10/13/07, Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp> wrote:
> Yes. There is /sys/slab/ .
> But are there any tools for browsing like /usr/bin/slabtop ?
> Is
>   cd /sys/slab/; for i in *; do echo -n $i " "; cat $i/slabs; done
> the only way currently available?

I don't think slabtop in procps has been updated to support slub. Christoph?

                            Pekka
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