Hello,

> On 3. Sep 2020, at 15:53, Chad William Seys <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
>  It seems that OpenAFS 1.8.x uses more slab (or doesn't free it as quickly) 
> than 1.6.20 .
> 
>  The machine in question uses AFS heavily. it is used to backup our AFS area. 
> It scans through files constantly and in more than directory and in two 
> domains at a time.
>  I recently upgraded from Debian Stretch running openafs 1.6.20 to Debian 
> Buster 1.8.2.  After encountering the problem I also tried Debian Bullseye 
> (testing) with openafs 1.8.6.  Same symptoms.
>  On a 6GB (virtual) machine it used enough to start swapping and kill the 
> machine.

while that's not supposed to happen, I'm wondering whether running afsd with 
'-disable-dynamic-vcaches' would help?

- Stephan

>  The last output of 'slabtop' says:
> OBJS ACTIVE USE OBJSIZE SLABS OBJ/SLAB CACHE SIZE NAME
> 5235885 5235885 100% 1.06K 539811 15 8636976K afs_inode_cache
> 
>  Any way to change this behavior?
> 
> Thanks!
> Cahd.

-- 
Stephan Wiesand
DESY -DV-
Platanenallee 6
15738 Zeuthen, Germany

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