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From: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
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Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 06:35:03PM +1000, Lachlan McIlroy wrote:
>> I'm not seeing a leak in that slab - actually that slab doesn't even
>> show up.  I am seeing a lot of memory used here though:
> 
> Are you using slab or slub?  The latter merges caches of equal size, so
> it's totally useless for the kind of debug stats Dave looked at.
> 
It's slub.