Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 22 Aug 2000 07:25:20 -0500 (CDT) | From | "Forever shall I be." <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.0-test6 memory leak? |
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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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