J. Bruce Fields (bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote on Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 05:42:45PM BRT: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 08:50:27PM -0300, Carlos Carvalho wrote: > > J. Bruce Fields (bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote on Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 10:58:40AM BRT: > > Note the big xprt_alloc. slabinfo is found in the kernel tree at tools/vm. > > Another way to see it: > > > > urquell# sort -n /sys/kernel/slab/kmalloc-2048/alloc_calls | tail -n 2 > > 1519 nfsd4_create_session+0x24a/0x810 age=189221/25894524/71426273 pid=5372-5436 cpus=0-11,13-16,19-20 nodes=0-1 > > 3380755 xprt_alloc+0x1e/0x190 age=5/27767270/71441075 pid=6-32599 cpus=0-31 nodes=0-1 > > Agreed that the xprt_alloc is suspicious, though I don't really > understand these statistics. > > Since you have 4.1 clients, maybe this would be explained by a leak in > the backchannel code. We've set clients to use 4.0 and it only made the problem worse; the growth in unreclaimable memory was faster. > It could certainly still be worth testing 3.17 if possible. We tested it and it SEEMS the problem doesn't appear in 3.17.1; the SUnreclaim value oscillates up and down as usual, instead of increasing monotonically. However it didn't last long enough for us to get conclusive numbers because after about 5-6h the machine fills the screen with "NMI watchdog CPU #... is locked for more than 22s". It spits these messages for many cores at once, and becomes unresponsive; we have to reboot it from the console with alt+sysreq. Do these 2 new pieces of info give a clue? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
