Memory is being consumed by slab/cache - Balancing dirty flushing/syncing
Issue
- Certain caches like slab inode or dentry caches appear to be growing extensively consuming multi GBs of memory. What can be done to adjust how large they grow?
- How does Red Hat Linux manage dynamic cache memory usage?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6, all minor releases
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7, all minor releases
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