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| author | Zhao Mengmeng <zhaomengmeng@kylinos.cn> | 2023-04-11 05:52:24 -0400 |
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| committer | Craig Small <csmall@dropbear.xyz> | 2023-04-25 07:19:22 +0000 |
| commit | 25cd1bee0c8025150275252e26c88a7cdf51adb9 (patch) | |
| tree | 21b9e964b976ee8a0fa1743782f6b5d4daa925db /man | |
| parent | 833cdc64f06989fc1949d056e8ec11d5cd99e4c0 (diff) | |
| download | procps-ng-25cd1bee0c8025150275252e26c88a7cdf51adb9.tar.gz | |
slabinfo: add comment for cache_size calculation
One of our physical machine shows that the "CACHE SIZE" column
of slabtop output is extremely high, three times of the products
of objs nums and objs size. After some analysis, we found that
the order of slab, which decides "pages per slab", will shrink
when memory pressure is high and normal order allocation failed.
So we think it might help to add these comments to the man help.
Minor fix: add the "memory." back, which is lost after
"aa461df0: docs: Minor manpage fixes"
Signed-off-by: Zhao Mengmeng <zhaomengmeng@kylinos.cn>
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/slabtop.1 | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man/slabtop.1 b/man/slabtop.1 index edf4784..089fb0e 100644 --- a/man/slabtop.1 +++ b/man/slabtop.1 @@ -104,7 +104,13 @@ The .B slabtop statistic header is tracking how many bytes of slabs are being used and is not a measure of physical memory. The 'Slab' field in the -\fI/proc/meminfo\fR file is tracking information about used slab physical +\fI/proc/meminfo\fR file is tracking information about used slab physical memory. +.PP +The +.B CACHE SIZE +column is not accurate, it's the upper limit of memory used by specific slab. When system +using slub (most common case) is under high memory pressure, there are slab order +fallbacks, which means "pages per slab" is not constant and may decrease. .SH AUTHORS Written by Chris Rivera and Robert Love. .PP |