http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=998850 Bug ID: 998850 Summary: Kernel slab eats all memory Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE Tumbleweed Version: Current Hardware: Other OS: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Kernel Assignee: kernel-maintainers@forge.provo.novell.com Reporter: P.Suetterlin@royac.iac.es QA Contact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- I have a new Skylake laptop (Thinkpad T460p) running an up-to-date Tumbleweed with kernel 4.7.2-2-default I noticed that the system started swapping despite 16GB RAM and little mem usage. A look at /proc/meminfo revealed that the memory is used by the kernel slab: Slab: 12410408 kB SReclaimable: 83752 kB SUnreclaim: 12326656 kB and slabtop shows one process permanently acquiring new pages: OBJS ACTIVE USE OBJ SIZE SLABS OBJ/SLAB CACHE SIZE NAME 3065838 3065838 100% 4.00K 3065838 1 12263352K kmalloc-4096 I'm not really sure where else to look or what other information to post, but will attach everything you request.... -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.