Application is slow sometimes and slab usage is high

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Issue

  • Intermittent and brief pauses in applications and processes or systems overall
  • Memory usage is high
    • Specifically, slab usage is high
  • Occasionally %sys is also high in tools like sar -C and collectl -sZ

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6

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