Bug 1330008

Summary: slabtop command cannot calculate correctly USE value
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Takayuki Nagata <tnagata>
Component: procpsAssignee: Jan Rybar <jrybar>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: David Jež <djez>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 6.6CC: albert, bnater, ovasik, qe-baseos-apps
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: Upstream
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: procps-3.2.8-45.el6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Cause: Computation of slab usage caused integer overflow in systems with lot of memory. Consequence: The usage percentage showed incorrect values. Fix: The calculation formula was changed to prevent 32bit integer overflow. Result: Slab usage shows correct percentage on systems with more than 2^32 slabs.
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Clone Of: 1329958 Environment:
Last Closed: 2017-03-21 11:40:25 UTC Type: Bug
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Bug Blocks: 1329958, 1356047, 1359260    

Comment 1 Takayuki Nagata 2016-04-25 09:37:03 UTC
There is the similar issue in procps of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Comment 3 Jan Rybar 2016-07-21 16:23:39 UTC
Integer overflow. Easyfix.

Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2017-03-21 11:40:25 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2017-0769.html