Constant memory usage increase in pid slab

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Memory usage is noted to gradually increase on the system
  • Upon inspection, /proc/meminfo shows a gradual and constant increase in slab memory usage
  • slabtop shows the majority of the slab memory usage growth is in the pid slab cache

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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