On 09/20/2012 09:32 AM, Nico Schottelius wrote:
Hey David,
David Rientjes [Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 11:54:54PM -0700]:
>On Thu, 20 Sep 2012, Nico Schottelius wrote:
>
> >for some time the slab usage is quite high (~3.2 GiB) and whenever I try
> >to do a backup with ccollect (which is using rsync), a lot of processes
> >(like chromium) are being killed over night.
> >
>
>Yeah, over 81% of your memory is consumed by slab and that doesn't shrink
>over the duration of the log you posted. It would be interesting to see
>if there was a leak somewhere: try looking at slabtop and determining if
>you have a cache using an egregious amount of memory;
I already had to reboot, because no now process was starting / only
starting extremly slowly.
Hi Nico,
Being curious (and suspicious) over here. Are you doing the rsync over
wireless interface using brcmsmac? I am currently looking at bugzilla
#47721 (see [1]) and maybe this is related.
Gr. AvS
[1] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47721
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