Unreclaimable slab growth in kmalloc-2048 due to an issue with 'vrouter' module.
Issue
- The system is getting into hang or OOM due to unreclaimable slab growth in 'kmalloc-2048'.
$ less /proc/meminfo |grep ^S
Slab: 3134324 kB
SReclaimable: 199712 kB
SUnreclaim: 2934612 kB
$ cat /proc/slabinfo |awk '{printf "%7i MiB : %s\n",$6*$(NF-1)/256,$1}'|sort -nk 1 -r|head -5
2544 MiB : kmalloc-2048
141 MiB : kmalloc-256
48 MiB : buffer_head
44 MiB : dentry
38 MiB : xfs_inode
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
- Red Hat OpenStack Platform.
vrouter
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