Re: OOM Killer killing whole system

[Anton Titov]

On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 14:04 -0600, Chase Venters wrote:
> 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,
>  The culprit was 1.5 million SCSI commands in the scsi command cache. 
> 
> Thanks,
> Chase

I currently have this:
scsi_cmd_cache    1458778 1458790    384   10    1 : tunables   54 27
8 : slabdata 145879 145879      0

in /proc/slabinfo, which is pretty close to 1.5 million. The system is
working fine but it should be not very loaded anyway, so a mem leakage
will not show up early. Just checked, that scsi_cmd_cache on other
machines of mine is under 100, so it seems like a problem.

Unfortunately, while being a programmer, I'm totally unaware
what /proc/slabinfo means, but I'm perfectly willing to provide a shell
(in case of Andrew or other famous developer it may be even root) on
this machine.

I'm attaching the /proc/slabinfo

Thanks for help,
Anton

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