From: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>
To: Micha? Kazior <kazikcz@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] Possible cache memory leak.
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:47:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1IYjnJ-0000ee-2g@be1.lrz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <95NCx-7eE-13@gated-at.bofh.it>
Micha? Kazior <kazikcz@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've discovered a strange thing lately. My memory is being sucked out
> when doing (I suppose) _a lot_ of stat() on the file system. I got left
> once with ~30MB of ram (of 512 in total) which made my system trash
> like hell. You might try doing the following to reproduce the effect:
>
> $ echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
> $ vmstat # write down the result
> $ du -s -x /lots/of/files # keep it running for a minute
> $ echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
> $ vmstat # write it down too
RTFM: Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
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2007-09-21 10:00 Michał Kazior
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