From: Andre Tomt <andre@tomt.net>
To: gene.heskett@verizon.net
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, root@chaos.analogic.com,
"Kasper Sandberg" <lkml@metanurb.dk>,
"Kristian Sørensen" <ks@cs.aau.dk>,
umbrella@cs.aau.dk
Subject: Re: Gigantic memory leak in linux-2.6.[789]!
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 18:28:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41793519.1080500@tomt.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200410221215.32597.gene.heskett@verizon.net>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-22 16:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-22 14:13 Gigantic memory leak in linux-2.6.[789]! Kristian Sørensen
2004-10-22 14:32 ` Kasper Sandberg
2004-10-22 15:07 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-10-22 15:50 ` Kristian Sørensen
2004-10-22 16:12 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-10-22 19:24 ` Kristian Sørensen
2004-10-22 19:20 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-10-22 19:33 ` Chris Friesen
2004-10-22 16:15 ` Gene Heskett
2004-10-22 16:28 ` Andre Tomt [this message]
2004-10-22 16:32 ` Chris Friesen
2004-10-23 0:51 ` David Lang
2004-10-24 14:14 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-10-24 16:04 ` Tommy Reynolds
2004-10-25 22:11 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-10-25 22:47 ` David Lang
2004-10-23 1:44 ` Bernd Eckenfels
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