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From: "U.Mutlu" <for-gmane@mutluit.com>
To: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fsck memory leak
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 18:53:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <n3sjvh$ib8$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151204151927.GA3548@thunk.org>

Theodore Ts'o wrote on 12/04/2015 04:19 PM:
> 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".

Just tried it out.
Doing "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" solves the problem.

> Regards,
>
> 						- Ted



  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-04 17:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-04  7:15 fsck memory leak U.Mutlu
2015-12-04  7:49 ` U.Mutlu
2015-12-04 10:21   ` Karel Zak
2015-12-04 18:00     ` U.Mutlu
2015-12-04 15:19 ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-12-04 17:53   ` U.Mutlu [this message]
2015-12-04 19:09     ` U.Mutlu
2015-12-04 19:58     ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-12-04 20:31       ` U.Mutlu
2015-12-04 21:40         ` Ruediger Meier
2015-12-04 22:26           ` U.Mutlu
2015-12-04 22:03         ` Mike Frysinger
2015-12-04 22:17         ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-12-04 22:01       ` Mike Frysinger
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-12-04 23:08 Dave Rutherford

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