Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271442AbUJVQ2M (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 12:28:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271444AbUJVQ2L (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 12:28:11 -0400 Received: from ns1.skjellin.no ([80.239.42.66]:50078 "HELO mail.skjellin.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S271442AbUJVQ2K (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 12:28:10 -0400 Message-ID: <41793519.1080500@tomt.net> Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 18:28:09 +0200 From: Andre Tomt User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gene.heskett@verizon.net CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, root@chaos.analogic.com, Kasper Sandberg , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kristian_S=F8rensen?= , umbrella@cs.aau.dk Subject: Re: Gigantic memory leak in linux-2.6.[789]! References: <200410221613.35913.ks@cs.aau.dk> <1098455535.12574.1.camel@localhost> <200410221215.32597.gene.heskett@verizon.net> In-Reply-To: <200410221215.32597.gene.heskett@verizon.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 673 Lines: 18 Gene Heskett wrote: > 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. It should get freed when something else needs it. Usually not before. - 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/