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Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 11:50:06 -0300 (BRT)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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To: Andrew Rodland <arodland@noln.com>
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Subject: Re: memory leak?
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On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Andrew Rodland wrote:
> On 21 Jul 2002 16:20:39 +0200
> Martin Josefsson <gandalf@wlug.westbo.se> wrote:
>
> > free don't know about slabcaches. take a look in /proc/slabinfo and
> > see what's using that memory. it's not a leak, the memory will be
> > free'd when the machine is under enough memory pressure.
>
> Yeah... look at that. looks like I've got quite a bit of memory
> invested in inode_cache and dentry_cache. There's no way to have them
> reported as "cache" memory anymore?

Submit patches for procps to make free examine /proc/slabinfo ;)

Rik
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