From: mru@users.sourceforge.net (Måns Rullgård)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: memory leak?
Date: 21 Jul 2002 22:48:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yw1xadokdcym.fsf@gladiusit.e.kth.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Alan Cox's message of "21 Jul 2002 17:33:44 +0100"
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
> > > This memory will be reclaimed when the system needs it.
> >
> > Does this mean that free and /proc/meminfo are incorrect?
>
> By its own definition proc/meminfo is correct. top could go rummaging in
> /proc/slabinfo but its questionable if it is meaningful to do so. The
> actually "out of memory" case for a virtual memory system is not "no
> memory pages free" nor "no memory or swap free" its closer to "working
> set plus i/o buffers exceeds memory size".
Why can't proc/meminfo report these caches as cached instead of plain
used? Would that be incorrect somehow?
--
Måns Rullgård
mru@users.sf.net
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-21 20:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-21 14:00 Måns Rullgård
2002-07-21 14:19 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-21 14:23 ` Måns Rullgård
2002-07-21 16:33 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-21 20:48 ` Måns Rullgård [this message]
2002-07-21 21:08 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-30 16:08 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-07-30 16:43 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-22 14:08 ` Andrew Rodland
2002-07-21 14:19 ` Måns Rullgård
2002-07-21 14:20 ` Martin Josefsson
2002-07-21 22:27 ` Stephan Maciej
2002-07-22 14:26 ` Andrew Rodland
2002-07-21 14:50 ` Rik van Riel
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