Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 16:02:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 16:02:28 -0500 Received: from brauhaus.paderlinx.de ([194.122.103.4]:3778 "EHLO imail.paderlinx.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 16:02:17 -0500 Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 22:01:21 +0100 (MET) From: Matthias Schniedermeyer To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Memory leak in 2.4.2 (+loop-6-patch)??? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org #Include After some days of uptime, i just stopped (nearly) all programs, unmounted all unnecessary devices. But top & free say that 1/3 of my RAM is still "used" Here is what top means: (Swap is 0K because i don't use Swap at all. Should i use swap?) 9:54pm up 11 days, 23 min, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.22, 0.52 30 processes: 29 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU0 states: 0.1% user, 0.0% system, 0.0% nice, 99.4% idle CPU1 states: 0.0% user, 0.2% system, 0.0% nice, 99.3% idle Mem: 1028648K av, 334624K used, 694024K free, 0K shrd, 3556K buff Swap: 0K av, 0K used, 0K free 55136K cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 1 root 4 0 100 100 60 S 0.0 0.0 0:17 init 2 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 keventd 3 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:53 kswapd 4 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kreclaimd 5 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 6:21 bdflush 6 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:34 kupdate 7 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 khubd 294 root 8 0 164 164 72 S 0.0 0.0 0:01 cron 373 root 9 0 508 508 144 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 login 374 root 9 0 508 508 144 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 login 375 root 9 0 508 508 144 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 login 380 root 9 0 84 84 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 mingetty 385 root 9 0 508 508 144 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 login 386 root 9 0 84 84 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 mingetty 389 ms 8 0 1072 1072 736 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 bash 396 root 0 0 1264 1264 896 S 0.0 0.1 0:01 bash 404 root 11 0 1132 1132 732 S 0.0 0.1 0:01 bash 463 citd 8 0 1192 1192 852 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 bash 6520 root 9 0 612 612 524 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 mingetty 6521 root 9 0 612 612 524 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 mingetty 6522 root 9 0 612 612 524 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 mingetty 6523 root 9 0 612 612 524 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 mingetty 6524 root 9 0 612 612 524 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 mingetty 6525 root 9 0 612 612 524 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 mingetty 6526 root 9 0 612 612 524 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 mingetty 6527 root 9 0 612 612 524 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 mingetty 6528 root 9 0 612 612 524 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 mingetty 6529 root 9 0 612 612 524 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 mingetty 6652 root 12 0 1008 1008 804 R 0.0 0.0 0:00 top 6663 root 17 0 544 544 468 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 gpm uname -a Linux leeloo 2.4.2 #18 SMP Fri Feb 23 19:31:03 CET 2001 i686 unknown gcc --version 2.95.2 Bis denn -- Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/