Re: memory leak in scsi_cmd_cache 2.6.15

From: Jamie Heilman
Date: Fri Jan 27 2006 - 06:27:07 EST


Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 22 2006, Jamie Heilman wrote:
> > Ariel wrote:
> > > ata_piix seems like it's in common for all, but this is not a lot of
> > > systems, so it could just be a coincidence and the problem caused by
> > > something that's not chipset specific.
> >
> > Hmm. I just moved my sata_sil stuff out of the way and rebooted:
> >
> > $ uptime; grep scsi_cmd_cache /proc/slabinfo
> > 23:22:16 up 4 min, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.00
> > scsi_cmd_cache 1200 1200 384 10 1 : tunables 54 27 8 : slabdata 120 120 0
> >
> > My other workstation also runs 2.6.15.1 but uses sata_nv and doesn't
> > exhibit the problem.
>
> The SATA low level driver is very unlikely to play a role in this. But
> you are both using md (raid1 to be specific) on top of scsi, I'd say
> that's the best clue. I'd very much doubt the nvidia module as well.

True, my sata_nv box doesn't use md. OTOH, my machines running raid1
on an LSI (MPT Fusion driver) SCSI controller don't have this leak.

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Jamie Heilman http://audible.transient.net/~jamie/
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