The fasync_cache grows. Possible leak in kernel 2.6.13.4.

From: CHIKAMA masaki
Date: Sun Oct 23 2005 - 20:52:01 EST


Hi all.

I have trouble with latest stable kernel (2.6.13.4).
I set up samba server on reiserfs and begin to copy a huge number of file.
After one day, the system is very slow and almost not usable.

The slabtop output is here.

Active / Total Objects (% used) : 1548119 / 1609222 (96.2%)
Active / Total Slabs (% used) : 36327 / 36329 (100.0%)
Active / Total Caches (% used) : 93 / 138 (67.4%)
Active / Total Size (% used) : 120135.47K / 136560.17K (88.0%)
Minimum / Average / Maximum Object : 0.01K / 0.08K / 128.00K

OBJS ACTIVE USE OBJ SIZE SLABS OBJ/SLAB CACHE SIZE NAME
1150566 1150564 99% 0.02K 5091 226 20364K fasync_cache

134358 130080 96% 0.27K 9597 14 38388K radix_tree_node
104678 84053 80% 0.54K 14954 7 59816K ext3_inode_cache
98874 74548 75% 0.14K 3662 27 14648K dentry_cache
86925 83430 95% 0.05K 1159 75 4636K buffer_head
6893 4976 72% 0.06K 113 61 452K size-64
5712 3646 63% 0.03K 48 119 192K size-32
3072 3057 99% 0.04K 32 96 128K sysfs_dir_cache
2193 1667 76% 0.09K 51 43 204K vm_area_struct
1333 1260 94% 0.12K 43 31 172K size-128
1130 724 64% 0.02K 5 226 20K anon_vma
1130 1024 90% 0.02K 5 226 20K dm_io
1130 1024 90% 0.02K 5 226 20K dm_tio
1070 828 77% 0.38K 107 10 428K inode_cache
825 675 81% 0.25K 55 15 220K filp
470 470 100% 0.39K 47 10 188K proc_inode_cache
452 272 60% 0.02K 2 226 8K biovec-1


I can find the same problem on ext3 fs.
The FC3 latest kernel(2.6.12-1.1378_FC3smp) also.
It seems no difference between UP and SMP.
The problem is not solved even if I stop and restart the samba server.

Please give me your help.
Thanks.

PS. Please Cc: me. I'm not on the list.

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CHIKAMA Masaki @ NICT

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