From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:58664 "EHLO plane.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751765AbbLDHPX (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Dec 2015 02:15:23 -0500 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a4kaP-0000jB-QJ for util-linux@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 08:15:21 +0100 Received: from ip4d14b373.dynamic.kabel-deutschland.de ([77.20.179.115]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 08:15:21 +0100 Received: from for-gmane by ip4d14b373.dynamic.kabel-deutschland.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 08:15:21 +0100 To: util-linux@vger.kernel.org From: "U.Mutlu" Subject: fsck memory leak Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 08:15:14 +0100 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Sender: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. fsck from util-linux 2.25.2 Filesys: ext4, 500 MB SSD OS: Debian 8 X86_64, uptodate -- U.Mutlu