Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756074AbXKFJZU (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Nov 2007 04:25:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752028AbXKFJZI (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Nov 2007 04:25:08 -0500 Received: from el-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.162.179]:26008 "EHLO el-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751729AbXKFJZG (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Nov 2007 04:25:06 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=Co//MVkK52tDXSAboGzZBdmpgAivlq4i1k8R360XJ+F+vTm84RlGrZ1PUaQ9uZrGCFA02zTxRhZTn/ZSwhU0uTr48b65iL07/NPseD+fnKHGFBZjtbxsyV6CBmJdw8zPzFAG0ho/bYgKM+yBRKU9CUo+rRCN9OhbVt/3ryEVcis= Message-ID: Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 17:25:03 +0800 From: "Jeff Chua" To: "Hugh Dickins" Subject: Slab/Slub growing above 2.6.20.15 (may be...) Cc: "Christoph Lameter" , "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Oliv=E9r_Pint=E9r?=" , "Linus Torvalds" , "Andrew Morton" , "Willy Tarreau" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1058 Lines: 27 On Nov 6, 2007 3:58 PM, Hugh Dickins 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/