Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 21 Jul 2002 11:19:27 -0300 (BRT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: memory leak? |
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On 21 Jul 2002, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> I noticed that doing lots or file accesses causes the used memory to > increase, *after* subtracting buffers/cache. Here is an example:
> Here 24 MB of memory have been used up. Repeating the du seems to have > little effect. This directory has ~3200 subdirs and 13400 files.
> Is this a memory leak? I get the same results with ext2, ext3, > reiserfs and nfs.
See /proc/slabinfo for the numbers, the memory is most likely being used in the dentry_cache, the inode_cache and in buffer heads.
This memory will be reclaimed when the system needs it.
regards,
Rik -- Bravely reimplemented by the knights who say "NIH".
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