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Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 11:19:27 -0300 (BRT)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: memory leak?
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On 21 Jul 2002, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:

> I noticed that doing lots or file accesses causes the used memory to
> increase, *after* subtracting buffers/cache. Here is an example:

> Here 24 MB of memory have been used up. Repeating the du seems to have
> little effect. This directory has ~3200 subdirs and 13400 files.

> Is this a memory leak? I get the same results with ext2, ext3,
> reiserfs and nfs.

See /proc/slabinfo for the numbers, the memory is most likely
being used in the dentry_cache, the inode_cache and in buffer
heads.

This memory will be reclaimed when the system needs it.

regards,

Rik
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