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Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 10:19:27 -0500
From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: "U.Mutlu" <for-gmane@mutluit.com>
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Subject: Re: fsck memory leak
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On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 08:15:14AM +0100, U.Mutlu wrote:
> Hi,
> when I as root do "touch /forcefsck" and reboot, then fsck will be done.
> But afterwards one has less free memory available than normal.
> Example:
> used mem immediately after login:
>  without fsck during boot:  98 MB (this the normal level here)
>  with fsck during boot   : 139 MB
> So, there is a memory leak of about 41 MB.

Please send the output of cat /proc/meminfo (a) before running fsck,
(b) after running fsck, and then (c) after running "echo 3 >
/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches".

Regards,

						- Ted