linux-kernel - Slab/Slub growing above 2.6.20.15 (may be...)

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Date:	Tue, 6 Nov 2007 17:25:03 +0800
From:	"Jeff Chua" <jeff.chua.linux@...il.com>
To:	"Hugh Dickins" <hugh@...itas.com>
Cc:	"Christoph Lameter" <clameter@....com>,
	"Olivér Pintér" <oliver.pntr@...il.com>,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Willy Tarreau" <w@....eu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...nel.org
Subject: Slab/Slub growing above 2.6.20.15 (may be...)

On Nov 6, 2007 3:58 PM, Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com> wrote:
> > running Oracle. It only happens with lots of activities.
>
> It would help everybody if you could get more info on this.

Ok, I'll try to log down the activities when it happens again.

> Give 2.6.24-rc2 a try when it appears, if you can.

Definitely will. Only problem is I still need vmware and cisco vpn,
and these two modules cannot compile on 2.6.24-rc1. Does anyone have a
patch for these? Last time I posted some patches for these, I got yell
at. But I need to work at the same time.

> Do you think it's the SLAB which is growing?  If /proc/meminfo's
> Slab count goes up and up, then use /proc/slabinfo to see what
> it is that's leaking.  Then there's CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK.

These are good tools for me to work with.

Thank you,
Jeff.
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