Unbound growth of slab structures cred_jar
Issue
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Slab memory is getting increased in the structures
cred-jarandsize-192. -
SUnreclaim (slab unreclaimable) is increasing over time and fills up the entire RAM
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Memory consumption looks like as follows:
# cat /proc/meminfo
...
Slab: 75893696 kB
SReclaimable: 121844 kB
SUnreclaim: 75771852 kB
# cat /proc/slabinfo | grep -i cred_jar
# name <active_objs> <num_objs> <objsize> ...
cred_jar 188444476 188450240 192 20 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 9422512 9422512 919
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2
- kernel 2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64
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