Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262256AbUFWPbP (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jun 2004 11:31:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264278AbUFWPbP (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jun 2004 11:31:15 -0400 Received: from [66.199.228.3] ([66.199.228.3]:23822 "EHLO xdr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262256AbUFWPbO (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jun 2004 11:31:14 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 08:31:12 -0700 From: David Ashley Message-Id: <200406231531.i5NFVCuf018957@xdr.com> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Cached memory never gets released Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 852 Lines: 20 Linux 2.4.23 on x86, 128M memory available Free outputs this: total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 119204 109592 9612 0 60 92136 -/+ buffers/cache: 17396 101808 Swap: 0 0 0 The root filesystem is NFS, no hard drives involved. When I run a simple program that just mallocs memory and fills it with random data, the kernel kills the process after it has only allocated 8 or 9 megs. The 92136K of cached memory can't get released for some reason. What is happening? Thanks very much! -Dave - 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/