Re: 2.6.24-rc7: memory leak?

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Thu Jan 17 2008 - 06:21:41 EST


Hi,

On Jan 17, 2008 8:34 AM, CaT <cat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There are 75 processes on the box of which almost 47 are kernel
> processes + init. Of the rest, the top 3 have an RSS of 9.4meg, 6.2meg
> and 4.8meg, 7 are at around 2meg and the rest are below 2meg with the
> majority below 1. So unless I'm misunderstanding something, processess
> alone do not account for the amount of used memory.

Looking at /proc/slabinfo, 965 MB is used by the ext3 inode cache and
144 MB by the dentry cache.

Pekka
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