From: Boris Kurktchiev <techstuff@gmx.net>
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To: vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Posible memory leak!?
Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 10:24:36 -0400
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On Thursday May 15 2003 1:51 am, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> On 14 May 2003 17:12, Boris Kurktchiev wrote:
> > heh this is very interesting.... top b n1 reports this:
> > top - 10:08:24 up 16:36,  2 users,  load average: 0.16, 0.19, 0.08
> > Tasks:  62 total,   1 running,  60 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
> > Cpu(s):  12.3% user,   5.1% system,   0.0% nice,  82.6% idle
> > Mem:    385904k total,   381572k used,     4332k free,   137244k
> > buffers Swap:   128512k total,    20012k used,   108500k free,
> > 126168k cached
>
> Typical. So what makes you think kernel leaks memory?

well the fact that before my swap was never used, and now .... I need to 
transcode something so I can show you how all swap is being used and non of 
the RAM (thus making programs run much slower, as is the case with 
transcode).

> BTW, which version of procps do you have? Mine is 2.0.10,
> 2.0.11 already exists.

I believe I have 2.0.10.

> gkrellm must be subtracting something from MemTotal trying
> to account for fact that large part of RAM is used as a cache.
> You may consult its source.

No... I forgot to tell it to count cache and buffers... 
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