Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271416AbUJVQPj (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 12:15:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271418AbUJVQPi (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 12:15:38 -0400 Received: from out003pub.verizon.net ([206.46.170.103]:55976 "EHLO out003.verizon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271416AbUJVQPe (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 12:15:34 -0400 From: Gene Heskett Reply-To: gene.heskett@verizon.net Organization: Organization: None, detectable by casual observers To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, root@chaos.analogic.com Subject: Re: Gigantic memory leak in linux-2.6.[789]! Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 12:15:32 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 Cc: Kasper Sandberg , Kristian =?iso-8859-1?q?S=F8rensen?= , umbrella@cs.aau.dk References: <200410221613.35913.ks@cs.aau.dk> <1098455535.12574.1.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200410221215.32597.gene.heskett@verizon.net> X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out003.verizon.net from [151.205.58.180] at Fri, 22 Oct 2004 11:15:33 -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 922 Lines: 22 On Friday 22 October 2004 11:07, Richard B. Johnson wrote: >while true ; do tar -xzf linux-2.6.9.tar.gz ; rm -rf linux-2.6.9 ; > vmstat ; done Stable, yes. But only after about 3 or 4 iterations. The first 3 rather handily used 500+ megs of memory that I did not get back when I stopped it and cleaned up the mess. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.28% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. - 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/