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From: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>
To: dual_bereta_r0x <dual_bereta_r0x@arenanetwork.com.br>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.23 + tmpfs: where's my mem?!
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 14:31:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031211133124.GA18161@alpha.home.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FD86904.30500@arenanetwork.com.br>

On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 10:54:28AM -0200, dual_bereta_r0x wrote:
> root@hquest:/tmp# cat /etc/slackware-version
> Slackware 9.1.0
> root@hquest:/tmp# uname -a
> Linux hquest 2.4.23 #6 Sat Nov 29 22:47:03 PST 2003 i686 unknown unknown 
> GNU/Linux
> root@hquest:/tmp# df /tmp
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> tmpfs                   124024    112388     11636  91% /tmp
> root@hquest:/tmp# du -s .
> 32      .
> root@hquest:/tmp# _

maybe you have a process which creates a temporary file in /tmp, and deletes
the entry while keeping the fd open. vmware 1.2 did that, and probably more
recent ones still do. It's a very clever way to automatically remove temp
files when the process terminates.

Cheers,
Willy


  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-11 13:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-11 12:54 2.4.23 + tmpfs: where's my mem?! dual_bereta_r0x
2003-12-11 13:31 ` Willy Tarreau [this message]
2003-12-11 14:11   ` Hugh Dickins
2003-12-11 14:23     ` Måns Rullgård
2003-12-11 15:01       ` Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
2003-12-11 15:39         ` Hugh Dickins
2003-12-11 20:58       ` Maciej Zenczykowski
2003-12-11 15:31   ` William Stearns

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