Chris Wedgwood wrote:

>On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 07:28:24PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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>>What happened to the experiment of having slab pages on the
>>(in)active lists and letting them be free'd that way? Didn't
>>somebody already do that? Ed Tomlinson and Craig Kulesa?
>>
>
>Just as a data point:
>
>cw@taniwha:~/wk/linux/bk-2.5.x$ grep -E '(LowT|Slab)' /proc/meminfo
>LowTotal:       898448 kB
>Slab:           846260 kB
>
>So the slab pressure I have right now is simply because there is
>nowhere else it has to grow...
>
>

Can you try the following patch? It is against 2.6.3-mm2.