I assume you want to see the output of /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace? (sorry, I'm nor a kernel guy...) I've attached that, xz-compressed. also outpput from ps aux, in case you need PIDs Yesterday I rebooted the machine. After reboot, slabtop did not show substantial activity and/or growing slab volume. I left it running overnight, this morning the growth had started again. Before the reboot I had put the machine first in multi-user.target, then rescue.target. Watching slabtop the increase in slab usage seemed to continue (I was sort of suspecting kwin/plasma to be the cause). FYI, filesystems in use are btrfs (root) and xfs (home) HTH