How to detect slab memory leak

[Mulyadi Santosa]

On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 1:25 PM Naruto Nguyen <narutonguyen2018 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> When using slabtop to display the cache size growing, I see that
> kmalloc-1024 and kmalloc-256 are increasing about 200MB after 1 hour.
> Is there any way to detect which kernel components cause this slab
> increase?
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Brs,
> Naruto
>
>
Hello Naruto

I think you can do it by instrumenting call to kmalloc(). These days, eBPF
is the hot stuff to try for this matter. See if it fits yours too.

regards,

Mulyadi


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