On 2012-04-09 17:57 +0200, Rik van Riel wrote: > On 04/09/2012 03:04 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> While I did not experience any crashes or instabilities (yet?), I'm also >> seeing memory leaks. On a system started this morning, with hardly >> anything running: > >> where I would expect no more than 50 MB used, 400 MB are actually in use: >> >> ,---- >> | $ free >> | total used free shared buffers cached >> | Mem: 3348400 1849712 1498688 0 328960 1119180 >> | -/+ buffers/cache: 401572 2946828 >> | Swap: 3719040 0 3719040 >> `---- > > Do you see any big memory users in /proc/meminfo or in > /proc/slabinfo? Attaching these files, since I can't really make anything out of the latter. Note that I started a few memory hogs (X, Firefox, Emacs with Gnus), so overall memory footprint has grown to 768 MB.