2007-11-06 09:25:20

by Jeff Chua

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Subject: Slab/Slub growing above 2.6.20.15 (may be...)

On Nov 6, 2007 3:58 PM, Hugh Dickins <[email protected]> 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.