Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 14:04:04 -0600 (CST)
From: Chase Venters <chase.venters@clientec.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
cc: Anton Titov <a.titov@host.bg>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: OOM Killer killing whole system
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On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> Jan 15 06:05:09 vip 216477 pages slab
>
> It's all in slab.  800MB.
>
> I'd be suspecting a slab memory leak.  If it happens again, please take a
> copy of /proc/slabinfo, send it.
>

Andrew & Anton,
 	I've experienced slab leaking in my system lately too. The culprit 
was 1.5 million SCSI commands in the scsi command cache. I haven't had an 
opportunity to look into it further yet; I'll try to copy you guys when I 
do.

Thanks,
Chase
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