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From: Padraig Brady <padraig@antefacto.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: ramfs leak
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 11:35:32 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BEA6E04.3020400@antefacto.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E161aYo-0000ch-00@fenrus.demon.nl>

When I remove files from a ramfs the space is not reclaimed?
What am I doing wrong? Details below.

thanks,
Padraig.
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host:/root# uname -a
Linux host 2.4.12-ac3 #5 Fri Oct 19 12:52:10 IST 2001 i686 unknown

host:/root# df
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root                58997     47112      8839  84% /
ramfs                    63524      3360     60164   5% /var

host:/root# dd if=/dev/zero count=20000 bs=1024 of=/tmp/leak
20000+0 records in
20000+0 records out

host:/root# df
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root                58997     47112      8839  84% /
ramfs                    63524     23360     40164  37% /var

host:/root# rm /tmp/leak

host:/root# df
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root                58997     47112      8839  84% /
ramfs                    63524     23360     40164  37% /var

host:/root# mount
/dev/root on / type ext2 (ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
ramfs on /var type ramfs (rw,noexec)

host:/root# cat /proc/meminfo
         total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
Mem:  130097152 48156672 81940480    49152  2990080 16277504
Swap:        0        0        0
MemTotal:       127048 kB
MemFree:         80020 kB
MemShared:          48 kB
Buffers:          2920 kB
Cached:          15896 kB
SwapCached:          0 kB
Active:           1760 kB
Inact_dirty:     17104 kB
Inact_clean:         0 kB
Inact_target:    26200 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB
LowTotal:       127048 kB
LowFree:         80020 kB
SwapTotal:           0 kB
SwapFree:            0 kB


  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-11-08 11:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-07 15:00 ext3 vs resiserfs vs xfs Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2001-11-07 15:23 ` Alan Cox
2001-11-07 15:28   ` Zvi Har'El
2001-11-07 20:19     ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-07 21:11       ` Zvi Har'El
2001-11-07 21:25         ` Christian Bornträger
2001-11-07 21:45           ` Mike Fedyk
2001-11-07 21:42         ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-07 22:11           ` arjan
2001-11-07 21:48         ` arjan
2001-11-08  7:08           ` Zvi Har'El
2001-11-08 11:06             ` Arjan van de Ven
2001-11-08 12:10               ` Zvi Har'El
2001-11-08 12:11                 ` Arjan van de Ven
2001-11-08 11:35           ` Padraig Brady [this message]
2001-11-07 16:31   ` James A Sutherland
2001-11-07 19:38     ` Ville Herva
2001-11-07 20:44       ` James A Sutherland
2001-11-07 21:11         ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-07 21:37           ` ext3 vs resizerfs " Ville Herva
2001-11-07 21:45             ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-08  0:13           ` ext3 vs resiserfs " James A Sutherland
2001-11-07 19:50     ` Daniel Gryniewicz
2001-11-07 20:24     ` Robert Love
2001-11-07 20:35       ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-07 20:27   ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-11-07 18:40 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-11-07 19:12   ` Alan Cox
2001-11-07 20:36     ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-11-07 19:40   ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-11-07 20:15     ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-07 21:33       ` Mike Fedyk
2001-11-07 22:00         ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-07 22:27           ` Mike Fedyk
2001-11-07 22:56             ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-07 23:18               ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-07 22:52           ` Mike Fedyk
2001-11-07 22:59             ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-07 23:36               ` D. Stimits
2001-11-07 23:55                 ` Mike Castle
2001-11-07 23:38             ` Mike Castle
2001-11-07 23:49               ` Mike Fedyk
2001-11-08 10:58           ` Juan Quintela
2001-11-07 20:25     ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-07 23:33       ` Ryan Cumming
2001-11-09 16:11         ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-07 20:21   ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-07 20:05 ` Theodore Tso
2001-11-07 20:18 ` Andreas Dilger
     [not found] <no.id>
2001-11-09 20:40 ` ramfs leak W Christopher Martin
2001-11-12  2:47 ` Tachino Nobuhiro
2001-11-12 18:35   ` Padraig Brady
2001-11-12 21:35     ` Alan Cox

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