Re: Memory leak in 2.1.54

Martin Mares (mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Tue, 9 Sep 1997 18:31:13 +0200


Hi,

> The memory "leak" is probably just excessive growth of the dcache and
> inodes. I'm working on the inode memory management, and will post a
> patch for testing later today. I've implemented very simple dcache
> pruning routine for micro-shrinking the dcache, and it works quite well
> at controlling dcache and inode growth.

Yes, it probably is, because machines with 8MB of RAM doesn't seem
to be affected by this problem.

Have a nice fortnight

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Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@gts.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
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