Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: memory leak? | From | (Måns Rullgård) | Date | 21 Jul 2002 16:23:06 +0200 |
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Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> writes:
> > I noticed that doing lots or file accesses causes the used memory to > > increase, *after* subtracting buffers/cache. Here is an example: > > > Here 24 MB of memory have been used up. Repeating the du seems to have > > little effect. This directory has ~3200 subdirs and 13400 files. > > > Is this a memory leak? I get the same results with ext2, ext3, > > reiserfs and nfs. > > See /proc/slabinfo for the numbers, the memory is most likely > being used in the dentry_cache, the inode_cache and in buffer > heads. > > This memory will be reclaimed when the system needs it.
Does this mean that free and /proc/meminfo are incorrect?
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