On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 11:06 -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > Right, perhaps my bad in wording the intent; the needed information is > > how many more pages would I need to grow the slab with in order to store > > so many new object. > > Would you not have to take objects currently available in > caches into account? If you are short on memory then a flushing of all the > caches may give you the memory you need (especially on a system with a > large number of processors).
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