Re: scsi cmd slab leak? (Was Re: [ck] Anyone been having OOM killer problems lately?)

From: Con Kolivas
Date: Thu Jan 19 2006 - 04:17:49 EST


On Thursday 19 January 2006 20:15, Chase Venters wrote:
> On Thursday 19 January 2006 01:49, Con Kolivas wrote:
> > > Do I have something madly leaking in my kernel?
> >
> > Yes! post /proc/slabinfo
>
> (attached). Looks like quite a few scsi commands! Next steps?
>
> > Con
>
> Thanks!
> Chase

Inded it does
scsi_cmd_cache 1547440 1547440 384 10 1 : tunables 54 27 8 :
slabdata 154744 154744 0

This looks suspiciously large. To be absolutely certain, though, you have to
reproduce the problem with a vanilla kernel, and no binary drivers anywhere.
My patches don't touch the scsi code directly, but the only way to be certain
is to use vanilla.

Cheers,
Con

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