Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 22 Aug 2000 19:07:46 -0700 (PDT) | From | Gerhard Mack <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.0-test6 memory leak? |
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On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Forever shall I be. wrote:
> Tigran Aivazian wrote: > > > On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Forever shall I be. wrote: > > > especially when I'm attempting to run programs and watching them > > > get killed because there's no more memory left.. > > > > ah... you didn't say that, did you? If you do get processes killed because > > of oom you may indeed have some sort of leak (but not necessarily). > > [snip] > > > > > Regards, > > Tigran > > > > Well, you were right.. It's not a memory leak, but I still consider it a > bug... I can allocate small amounts of memory, and let it free up more as > I allocate and write to them, and by doing this, I can regain the > memory so that I can allocate it all at once -- I can't just allocate it > all at once from the start, though, because Linux apparently thinks it's > taken by something that won't free it up for me ;) > I've discovered that in my case the cache wasn't being freed until I hit 0 swap free in wich case it would slowly free it. What kernels have you tried?
Gerhard
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