Re: Memory leak in 2.4.33-pre1?

From: Yoss
Date: Tue Feb 14 2006 - 03:19:43 EST


On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 01:05:30AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> You don't have to worry. Simply check /proc/slabinfo, you'll see plenty
> of memory used by dentry_cache and inode_cache and that's expected. This
> memory will be reclaimed when needed (for instance by calls to malloc()).

I downgraded hernel to 2.4.33 last night. So there is no slabinfo from
that problem now. But thank you for reply. Why is this memory not
showed somewhere in top or free?

> If you don't believe me, simply allocate 1 GB in a process, then free it.

If that what you said is rigth, day after tomorow I'll have the same
situation - only thing I have changed is kernel. So we'll see. :)

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Bartłomiej Butyn aka Yoss
Nie ma tego złego co by na gorsze nie wyszło.
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