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SLABTOP(1) User Commands SLABTOP(1)
slabtop - display kernel slab cache information in real time
slabtop [option ...]
slabtop displays detailed kernel slab cache information in real time. It displays a listing of the top caches sorted by one of the listed sort criteria. It also displays a statistics header filled with slab layer information.
Normal invocation of slabtop does not require any options. The behavior, however, can be fine-tuned by specifying one or more of the following flags: -d, --delay=N Refresh the display every n in seconds. By default, slabtop refreshes the display every three seconds. To exit the program, hit q. This cannot be combined with the -o option. -s, --sort=S Sort by S, where S is one of the sort criteria. -o, --once Display the output once and then exit. --human Show slab sizes automatically scaled to shortest three digit unit and display the units of print out. Following units are used. B = bytes Ki = kibibyte Mi = mebibyte Gi = gibibyte Ti = tebibyte Pi = pebibyte If this flag is not used, the slab sizes will be shown in KiB. -V, --version Display version information and exit. -h, --help Display usage information and exit.
The following are valid sort criteria used to sort the individual slab caches and thereby determine what are the "top" slab caches to display. The default sort criteria is to sort by the number of objects ("o"). The sort criteria can also be changed while slabtop is running by pressing the associated character. character description header a number of active objects ACTIVE b objects per slab OBJ/SLAB c cache size CACHE SIZE l number of slabs SLABS v number of active slabs N/A n name NAME o number of objects OBJS p pages per slab N/A s object size OBJ SIZE u cache utilization USE
slabtop accepts keyboard commands from the user during use. The following are supported. In the case of letters, both cases are accepted. Each of the valid sort characters are also accepted, to change the sort routine. See the section SORT CRITERIA. <SPACEBAR> Refresh the screen. Q Quit the program.
/proc/slabinfo slab information
free(1), ps(1), top(1), vmstat(8)
Currently, slabtop requires a 2.4 or later kernel (specifically, a version 1.1 or later /proc/slabinfo). Kernel 2.2 should be supported in the future. The 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 /proc/meminfo file is tracking information about used slab physical memory. The 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.
Written by Chris Rivera and Robert Love. slabtop was inspired by Martin Bligh's perl script, vmtop.
Please send bug reports to ⟨[email protected]⟩.
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procps-ng 2023-12-26 SLABTOP(1)
Pages that refer to this page: free(1), top(1), slabinfo(5)