Might be worth testing the regular 6.14.11-3-pve (2025-09-22T10:13Z) kernel instead of the -ice-fix builds, since it already carries relevant net/mm changes. I’ve since moved from Intel E810 to Mellanox, so can’t verify current ice behavior myself.
Slow memory leak in 6.8.12-13-pve
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Might be worth testing the regular 6.14.11-3-pve (2025-09-22T10:13Z) kernel instead of the -ice-fix builds, since it already carries relevant net/mm changes. I’ve since moved from Intel E810 to Mellanox, so can’t verify current ice behavior myself.
As I posted last Thursday, I tested that as well with no change. That kernel does *not* contain the "ice: fix Rx page leak on multi-buffer frames" fix (which is the -ice-fix builds), though of course those also don't fix the issue.
Apparently I spoke too soon on the -ice-fix builds. The buffer_head slab allocations do rise for the first few hours, but eventually seem to flatten out. I see something like 300MB of used buffer_head slab allocations (per slabtop) which of course seems pretty excessive, but total system memory usage appears to be flat over the last six hours with the 6.14 ice-fix build.
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