Re: 2.6.36-rc2 : slabtop report 10170292 size-32 objects...

From: Matt Mackall
Date: Wed Sep 08 2010 - 12:59:36 EST


On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 11:55 +0200, Paul Rolland wrote:
> Hi Pekka,
>
> On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 12:41:59 +0300
> Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Paul Rolland <rol@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > I was surprised to see my machine using so much swap when I couldn't
> > > find where all the memory was gone, and I checked quickly what slabtop
> > > had to say, and found that one :
> > >
> > > OBJS ACTIVE USE OBJ SIZE SLABS OBJ/SLAB CACHE SIZE NAME
> > > 10172288 10171996 99% 0.03K 90824 112 363296K size-32
> > >
> >
> > Might be related to this:
> >
> > http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2010/8/25/4611329
>
> Yes, considering that lspci also confirms my machine has some common points
> with Matt's one :

For the record, I'm using a conventional 2D window manager so the leak
is somewhere in that path.

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