Re: 2.4.23 + tmpfs: where's my mem?!

From: Maciej Zenczykowski
Date: Thu Dec 11 2003 - 16:00:21 EST


> FWIW, I've seen this behavior with vmware 4. The space came back when
> I closed vmware.

Vmware creates tmp files, deletes them, but keeps them open - the space is
used until all the file descriptors are closed. See if lsof doesn't show
some /tmp files which are open and large.

Cheers,
MaZe.


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