Constant memory usage increase in pid slab
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 thepid
slab cache
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
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