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SubjectRe: [BUG] Possible cache memory leak.
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Micha? Kazior <kazikcz@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've discovered a strange thing lately. My memory is being sucked out
> when doing (I suppose) _a lot_ of stat() on the file system. I got left
> once with ~30MB of ram (of 512 in total) which made my system trash
> like hell. You might try doing the following to reproduce the effect:
>
> $ echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
> $ vmstat # write down the result
> $ du -s -x /lots/of/files # keep it running for a minute
> $ echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
> $ vmstat # write it down too

RTFM: Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
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