RHEL 8.10: Memory leak in kernel-4.18.0-553.81.1.el8_10 and later

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • There is a memory leak after updating the system to kernel-4.18.0-553.81.1.el8_10 or later.
  • The system is frequently running Out of memory after updating the system to kernel-4.18.0-553.81.1.el8_10 or later kernels, even though no single process is consuming a huge amount of memory.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.10
    • kernel-4.18.0-553.81.1.el8_10.x86_64 or later
  • transparent huge pages configured

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