From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6 Description of problem: This is related to Bug 150945 extreme slab memory use It seems that whatever the fix was for that bug has crept back into the kernel 2.6.12-1.1372_FC3smp While running say updatedb. Or anything that scans the filesystem. The ext3_inode_cache goes up to 100% usage and does not reduce. This means that on a 1Gig system all of the actual ram is consumed for the task. The SLAB info does not get reported in say top. ie total available - usermem - buffers - cache != free So it appears that there is a memory leak. The huge SLAB usage for the inode cache, in this case just under 400MB does not get reported anywhere but slab info. Also I find that at this point the swap tends to get used. There is no way the swap should be getting touched at that point. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run updatedb 2. used mem goes up to all available ram 3. does not come back down Additional info:
We don't have any VM changes that diverge from mainline, so this is better reported upstream if you truly believe it's leaking. http://bugme.osdl.org is the upstream kernel bugzilla. Thanks.
Dave Jones, Kernel bugzilla is now in http://bugzilla.kernel.org
they actually both point to the same site.