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Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 19:19:30 -0300 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>
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Subject: Re: Memory leak in 2.4.2 (+loop-6-patch)???
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On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote:

> 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"

grep cache < /proc/slabinfo
grep buffer < /proc/slabinfo

regards,

Rik
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