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SubjectRe: [PATCH] oom: add sysctl to enable slab memory dump
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012, Josef Bacik wrote:

> Um well yeah, I'm rewriting a chunk of btrfs which was rapantly leaking memory
> so the OOM just couldn't keep up with how much I was sucking down. This is
> strictly a developer is doing something stupid and needs help pointing out what
> it is sort of moment, not a day to day OOM.
>

If you're debugging new kernel code and you realize that excessive amount
of memory is being consumed so that nothing can even fork, you may want to
try cat /proc/slabinfo before you get into that condition the next time
around, although I already suspect that you know the cache you're leaking.
It doesn't mean we need to add hundreds of lines of code to the kernel.
Try kmemleak.


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