Re: memory leak?

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Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> writes:

> > 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.

Does this mean that free and /proc/meminfo are incorrect?

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Måns Rullgård
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