Badari Pulavarty [off-list ref] wrote:

# name            <active_objs> <num_objs> <objsize> <objperslab> <pagesperslab> : tunables <batchcount> <limit> <sharedfactor> : slabdata <active_slabs> <num_slabs> <sharedavail>
size-40             2633  11468     64   61    1 : tunables  120   60    8 : slabdata    188    188      0
size-40             2633  11468     64   61    1 : tunables  120   60    8 : slabdata    188    188      0
size-40             2633  11468     64   61    1 : tunables  120   60    8 : slabdata    188    188      0
size-40             2633  11468     64   61    1 : tunables  120   60    8 : slabdata    188    188      0
size-40             4457  27084     64   61    1 : tunables  120   60    8 : slabdata    444    444      0
size-40             7685  59292     64   61    1 : tunables  120   60    8 : slabdata    972    972      0
size-40            10761  89548     64   61    1 : tunables  120   60    8 : slabdata   1468   1468      0
size-40            13589 119316     64   61    1 : tunables  120   60    8 : slabdata   1956   1956      0
size-40            16717 149084     64   61    1 : tunables  120   60    8 : slabdata   2444   2444      0

That looks like plain brokenness rather than fragmentation.  We shouldn't
be allocating new pages until active_objs reaches num_objs, should we?

Unless the accouting is broken, or course...
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