High memory usage due to unreclaimable slab cache (kmalloc) growth caused by CrowdStrike Falcon sensor modules
Issue
- The system experiences memory exhaustion due to a large number of unreclaimable allocations in the
kmalloc-*slab cache, caused by the CrowdStrike Falcon sensor (falcon_kal/falcon_lsm_serviceable) modules.
# cat /proc/slabinfo |awk '{printf "%7i MiB : %s\n",$6*$(NF-1)/256,$1}'|sort -nk 1 -r|head -5
20367 MiB : kmalloc-2048
2648 MiB : kmalloc-192
2299 MiB : kmalloc-1024
1757 MiB : shared_policy_node
1049 MiB : kmalloc-64
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- CrowdStrike Falcon sensor modules (
falcon_kal/falcon_lsm_serviceable)
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