vda wrote:
> >
> > total used free shared buffers
> > cached
> > Mem: 417472 412192 5280 0 20632
> > 315680
> > -/+ buffers/cache: 75880 341592
> > Swap: 136544 0 136544
>
> It seems you think your memory is used for no purpose,
> but kernel just keeps page cache in your RAM (kernel bugs are indeed
> possible, but your test does not show any buggy behavior IMHO).
My whole system slows down (commands take a long time to execute,
decompression slows, ls in an empty dir takes 10 sec)
>
> To verify this, you may repeat this experiment on a separate partition:
> 1) mount a partition
> 2) do the test as you described
> 3) umount the partition
I did this, and it uncached some, but I only had 60megs (out of 416)
free after unmounting the partition. The cache went down to about 5
megs, and in-use was at 350 megs.
>
> I believe you should see tons of free memory then, especially if your tarfile
> is also on that partition.
> Please report back if you would do the test.
> --
> vda
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