Slab growth in size-2048 on large memory systems running RHEL6.2

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • size-2048 slab growth ends up using 99% of total memory and crashing the system
  • memory leak when using a tape device

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.2
  • Seen on server with tape device

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