Re: fsck memory leak

[Ruediger Meier <sweet_f_a@gmx.de>]

On Friday 04 December 2015, U.Mutlu wrote:
> I think it's a double-edged sword: if user has less memory then
> the integrated caching will IMO degrade the performance.

It will use as much memory as available (not more). Ideally Linux would 
use always 100% memory. You've spent money for memory ... why you 
wouldn't want to use it?

After ...
$ echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

... my memory looks like this:
$ free -h
             total    used    free       shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          7.7G    1.8G    6.0G         230M       4.4M       487M
-/+ buffers/cache:    1.3G    6.5G
Swap:         1.7G     68M    1.6G

Then after ...
$ dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null count=8K bs=1M

... cache/buffer is filled
$ free -h
             total    used    free       shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          7.7G    7.6G    168M <=(1)   230M       5.6G       665M
-/+ buffers/cache:    1.3G    6.5G <=(2)
Swap:         1.7G     68M    1.6G

... and this should not change until reboot.

(1) shows that almost 100% memory is "in use"
(2) shows that it's just buffer or cache

sorun yapma ;)
Rudi