On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 09:49, Chris Adams <[email protected]> wrote: > Is anybody else seeing continually-increasing RAM use in RHEL 6? I'm > running on x86_64, and it appears the kernel is steadily increasing its > RAM use. If I compare process RAM usage to total used RAM, there is a > big discrepancy: > > # ps aux | awk '{x+=$6}END{print x}' > 319736 > # free > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 2055296 1791096 264200 0 201512 626996 > -/+ buffers/cache: 962588 1092708 > Swap: 2621432 16 2621416 > > I looked at "slabtop", and the dentry cache is the culprit: > > OBJS ACTIVE USE OBJ SIZE SLABS OBJ/SLAB CACHE SIZE NAME > 3078900 3078900 100% 0.19K 153945 20 615780K dentry > > Anybody else seeing this?
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