Re: OOM Killer killing whole system

[Chase Venters]

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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