From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932587AbWASJTE (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 04:19:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932580AbWASJTD (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 04:19:03 -0500 Received: from mail24.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.133.165]:11700 "EHLO mail24.syd.optusnet.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932575AbWASJTB (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 04:19:01 -0500 From: Con Kolivas To: Chase Venters Subject: Re: scsi cmd slab leak? (Was Re: [ck] Anyone been having OOM killer problems lately?) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 20:18:49 +1100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9 Cc: ck@vds.kolivas.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org References: <200601181951.16708.chase.venters@clientec.com> <200601191849.45002.kernel@kolivas.org> <200601190316.05247.chase.venters@clientec.com> In-Reply-To: <200601190316.05247.chase.venters@clientec.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1288584.PIYjHUxP9e"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200601192018.51972.kernel@kolivas.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --nextPart1288584.PIYjHUxP9e Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 19 January 2006 20:15, Chase Venters wrote: > On Thursday 19 January 2006 01:49, Con Kolivas wrote: > > > Do I have something madly leaking in my kernel? > > > > Yes! post /proc/slabinfo > > (attached). Looks like quite a few scsi commands! Next steps? > > > Con > > Thanks! > Chase Inded it does scsi_cmd_cache 1547440 1547440 384 10 1 : tunables 54 27 = 8 :=20 slabdata 154744 154744 0 This looks suspiciously large. To be absolutely certain, though, you have t= o=20 reproduce the problem with a vanilla kernel, and no binary drivers anywhere= =2E=20 My patches don't touch the scsi code directly, but the only way to be certa= in=20 is to use vanilla. Cheers, Con --nextPart1288584.PIYjHUxP9e Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDz1l7ZUg7+tp6mRURAqBzAJ9E3DGJNrfEKk4VApggwzhsH0pORgCbBsQi JAnniCCVE0ZXO7mB+kBY77c= =i8a5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1288584.PIYjHUxP9e--