On 1/12/21 5:35 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jan 2021, Jann Horn wrote: > >> [This is not something I intend to work on myself. But since I >> stumbled over this issue, I figured I should at least document/report >> it, in case anyone is willing to pick it up.] > > Well yeah all true. There is however a slabinfo tool that has an -s option > to shrink all slabs. > > slabinfo -s > > So you could put that somewhere that executes if the system is > idle or put it into cron or so. Hm this would be similar to recommending a periodical echo > drop_caches operation. We actually discourage from that (and yeah, some tools do that, and we now report those in dmesg). I believe the kernel should respond to memory pressure and not OOM prematurely by itself, including SLUB.
