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# slabinfo.plugin
SLAB is a cache mechanism used by the Kernel to avoid fragmentation.
Each internal structure (process, file descriptor, inode...) is stored within a SLAB.
## configuring Netdata for slabinfo
There is currently no configuration needed.
As `/proc/slabinfo` is only readable by root, this plugin is setuid root.
## For what use
This slabinfo details allows to have clues on actions done on your system.
In the following screenshot, you can clearly see a `find` done on a ext4 filesystem (the number of `ext4_inode_cache` & `dentry` are rising fast), and a few seconds later, an admin issued a `echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_cached` as their count dropped.
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