Re: Kernel memory allocation for FS in the presence of intensive processes

From: Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Date: Wed Feb 09 2000 - 12:49:59 EST


On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Jeff Waller wrote:

>But afterwords, top reports an anomalous amount of memory
>being used. Apparently by the kernel...Apparently. As a test

Where? Swap? if so run 2.2.14aa7 and you'll get your MM troubles solved.

>I tried (after rebooting)
>
>find /dvd -type f -exec cat {} > /dev/null \;
>
>Thinking that perhaps the kernel was allocating memory but
>not releasing it and in fact all free memory was "used up"
>at least by what top reports.

That's normal.

Andrea

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