Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 22 Oct 2004 18:28:09 +0200 | | From | Andre Tomt <> | | Subject | Re: Gigantic memory leak in linux-2.6.[789]! |
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Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 22 October 2004 11:07, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > >>while true ; do tar -xzf linux-2.6.9.tar.gz ; rm -rf linux-2.6.9 ; >>vmstat ; done > > > Stable, yes. But only after about 3 or 4 iterations. The first 3 > rather handily used 500+ megs of memory that I did not get back when > I stopped it and cleaned up the mess.
It should get freed when something else needs it. Usually not before. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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