Anton Titov <a.titov@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. That's great, thanks. This is 2.6.15 and we have a deadly bug in scsi. Next time you reboot 2.6.15 on that machine can you please send the output of `dmesg -s 1000000'? You might have to set CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=17 to prevent it from being truncated. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
