From: David Ashley <dash@xdr.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Cached memory never gets released
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 08:31:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200406231531.i5NFVCuf018957@xdr.com> (raw)
Linux 2.4.23 on x86, 128M memory available
Free outputs this:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 119204 109592 9612 0 60 92136
-/+ buffers/cache: 17396 101808
Swap: 0 0 0
The root filesystem is NFS, no hard drives involved.
When I run a simple program that just mallocs memory and fills it with
random data, the kernel kills the process after it has only allocated 8 or
9 megs. The 92136K of cached memory can't get released for some reason.
What is happening?
Thanks very much!
-Dave
next reply other threads:[~2004-06-23 15:31 UTC|newest]
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2004-06-23 15:31 David Ashley [this message]
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2004-06-23 18:35 Cached memory never gets released David Ashley
2004-06-23 18:44 ` Doug McNaught
2004-06-24 14:48 David Ashley
2004-06-24 15:49 ` Ross Biro
2004-06-24 17:14 David Ashley
2004-06-27 3:24 David Ashley
2004-06-29 15:07 David Ashley
2004-06-29 16:00 ` Ross Biro
2004-06-29 16:18 David Ashley
2004-06-30 1:25 ` Ross Biro
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