Feb. 4, 2022
9:54 p.m.
On Thu, Feb 03, 2022 at 07:37:26PM +0100, Sasa Vilic wrote:
active_anon:11334512 inactive_anon:331655 isolated_anon:0 active_file:5010 inactive_file:8095 isolated_file:141 unevictable:11170 dirty:0 writeback:5 unstable:0 slab_reclaimable:4728777 slab_unreclaimable:3779454 mapped:11225 shmem:1027917 pagetables:28308 bounce:0 free:99164 free_pcp:598 free_cma:0
There are 18 GiB (4728777 pages) used by the kernel that could be apparently reclaimed, but it is not. Why is the kernel not reclaiming that space? There are 14 GiB (3779454 pages) used by the kernel that could not be reclaimed. Why is my kernel taking so much space?
What does slabtop say about this? -- Valentin