Large amount of kmalloc-32 slab cache usage leading to OOM issue.
Issue
- Continuous growth of UN-reclaimable slab usage of
kmalloc-32object upon starting thecohesityapplication.
$ grep -A2 ^Sl proc/meminfo
Slab: 18358632 kB
SReclaimable: 669856 kB
SUnreclaim: 17688776 kB
$ cat proc/slabinfo |awk '{printf "%7i MiB : %s\n",$6*$(NF-1)/256,$1}'|sort -nk 1 -r|head -5
15881 MiB : kmalloc-32
487 MiB : kmalloc-4k
316 MiB : kmalloc-2k
203 MiB : ext4_inode_cache
149 MiB : mnt_cache
- At the time of OOM event, the
kmalloc-32usage is very high and leading to OOM.
NAME TOTAL OBJSIZE
kmalloc-32 84740940 K 32 <<<----
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.10
kmalloc-32autofs
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