Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | memory leak? | | From | (Måns Rullgård) | | Date | 21 Jul 2002 16:00:09 +0200 |
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I noticed that doing lots or file accesses causes the used memory to increase, *after* subtracting buffers/cache. Here is an example:
$ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 773776 30024 743752 0 1992 10424 -/+ buffers/cache: 17608 756168 Swap: 81904 0 81904 $ du > /dev/null $ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 773776 78008 695768 0 26328 10472 -/+ buffers/cache: 41208 732568 Swap: 81904 0 81904 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.
After a few hours use about 200 MB are used, apperently for nothing. Killing all processed and unmounting file systems doesn't help.
Is this a memory leak? I get the same results with ext2, ext3, reiserfs and nfs.
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