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SubjectRe: 2.4.0-test6 memory leak?
Tigran Aivazian wrote:

> where do you see a leak there? I don't see absolutely anything wrong there
> at all. Everything works as expected, find / should indeed use a lot of
> buffers as it brings a lot of metadata in. Which bit seems suspicious to
> you?

> > -/+ buffers/cache: 5696 250048
> > -/+ buffers/cache: 69288 186456

Notice the increase in used ram. This ram is not being free'd as needed
to make room for other programs (for instance, if I wanted to run a 190mb
program, I would not be able to), and it's not being taken by some other
process which is eating ram... I'd say that's pretty suspicious ;)

>
> Regards,
> Tigran
>


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