Messages in this thread | | | Subject | strange behavior creating and deleting files | From | Mpourtounis Dimitris <> | Date | Fri, 24 Sep 2004 13:13:47 +0300 |
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Hi all,
there seems to be a strange behaviour in the way my system creates and deletes files, as long as memory allocation is concerned.
running a simple script that continuously creates and deletes files on tmpfs filesystem, a got the following results:
files created free memory on system ------------- --------------------- 0 48180 +6000 47936 +6000 47372 +6000 47372 +6000 47936 +6000 47936 +6000 47936 +6000 47936 (seems stable) +9000 46976 (what on earth?) +30000 45084 +80000 45084 (again stable) +70000 39156 (not again...:( )
and sometime in the morning 25000 MB free RAM, and my system running too slow
I am sure these are a lot a files and under normal conditions, there will never be made and deleted so many.
It is that misbehavior of being stable for a long time and then again allocating memory that concerns me.
I am running linux 2.4.26 on an x86 platform (gcc 3.2.3 uclib 0.9.20)
Simple sh file: i=0 while [ 1 ] do echo "dont allocate more memory please" > $i rm $i let i=$i+1 done
Any clue???
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