Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: memory leak? | From | (Måns Rullgård) | Date | 21 Jul 2002 22:48:33 +0200 |
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Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
> > > This memory will be reclaimed when the system needs it. > > > > Does this mean that free and /proc/meminfo are incorrect? > > By its own definition proc/meminfo is correct. top could go rummaging in > /proc/slabinfo but its questionable if it is meaningful to do so. The > actually "out of memory" case for a virtual memory system is not "no > memory pages free" nor "no memory or swap free" its closer to "working > set plus i/o buffers exceeds memory size".
Why can't proc/meminfo report these caches as cached instead of plain used? Would that be incorrect somehow?
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