Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 22 Aug 2000 07:16:29 -0700 | From | David Ford <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.0-test6 memory leak? |
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This would be a problem but is not reflected in how you reported it.
The most common err amongst 'newbies' is to report lost memory when the number goes to 'only a few k left and it's never freed'.
Try 2.4.0-test7-pre6 +
I have not noticed a mem problem and I use most of my memory every day.
-d
"Forever shall I be." wrote:
> Tigran Aivazian wrote: > > > On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Forever shall I be. wrote: > > > > > 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 ;) > > > > Not at all. You need to learn how Linux (and generally UNIX) works. > You're a few years too late for that line to work ;) > > > Memory is there to be used - why should give it back if it may be needed > > again soon. > I fail to see how holding my entire directory structure in memory (well, > not the entire thing -- the second find went just as slow) for 15 days is > useful... especially when I'm attempting to run programs and watching them > get killed because there's no more memory left.. > > > Memory used by various caches created by subsystems is not usually > > "given back" unless memory pressure demands so. > Right. But pressure did demand so, and give back it did not. The memory > is lost until a reboot... processes are never given a chance to use it. > Somehow, I don't think this is the way it should be. > > > > > Regards, > > Tigran > > > > -- > Zinx Verituse <zinx@linuxfreak.com> :(){ :|:&};: > gpg (id 921B1558) (fp 5746 73A1 2184 A27A 9EC0 EDCC E132 BCEF 921B 1558) > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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