Ted Ts'o writes: > Christoph, > > Have you been able to replicate this problem since rebooting your > machine. I've never seen anything quite like your report before. I have a similar problem here: 2.5 GB of 6 GB used by ext4_allocation_context according to slabtop. # uname -a Linux ... 2.6.34.7-0.7-default #1 SMP 2010-12-13 11:13:53 +0100 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux openSUSE 11.3 > If you do, a couple of questions. Which slab allocator are you using? > Are you using SLAB or SLUB? (grep for CONFIG_SLAB or CONFIG_SLUB in > your .config file). It seems to be SLAB, so I cannot use slabinfo: # slabinfo -r SYSFS support for SLUB not active Any solutions found in the past 3 months? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html