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SubjectRe: Memory leak in 2.4.33-pre1?
On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 01:34:31AM +0100, Roberto Nibali wrote:
> >>So there is missing about ~300MB.
> >>If anyone wants to have more detailed info feel free to ask.
> >
> >You don't have to worry. Simply check /proc/slabinfo, you'll see plenty
> >of memory used by dentry_cache and inode_cache and that's expected. This
>
> Well, 300M dentry and inode is quite a lot for a system that has been up
> at most for 6 days.

my notebood eats more than the double of this when doing its slocate
3 min after boot, so that depends on what it does ;-)

> >memory will be reclaimed when needed (for instance by calls to malloc()).
>
> slabtop -s c -o | head -20
>
> would be interesting to see, otherwise I agree with Willy, as always ;).

:-)

> Cheers,
> Roberto Nibali, ratz

cheers,
Willy

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