Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Memory leak?

[Friedrich L. <fl...@fl...>]

Heiko Zuerker wrote on 30.07.2004 16:10 MET:

>>But every time procinfo is done I can see decreasing free memory (~ 4k
>>every time).
>>
>>
>>>Memory:      Total        Used        Free      Shared     Buffers
>>>Cached
>>>root@rsf:~ # grep "Mem:" /mnt/live
>>>Mem:        515040      126808      388232           0       19788
>>>72880
>>>Mem:        515040      126812      388228           0       19788
>>>72884
>>>Mem:        515040      126816      388224           0       19788
>>>72888
>>>Mem:        515040      126820      388220           0       19788
>>>72892
>>>Mem:        515040      126828      388212           0       19788
>>>72900
>>>Mem:        515040      126832      388208           0       19788
>>>72904
>>>Mem:        515040      126836      388204           0       19788
>>>72908
>>>Mem:        515040      126840      388200           0       19788
>>>72912
>>>Mem:        515040      126848      388192           0       19788
>>>72920
>>>Mem:        515040      126852      388188           0       19788
>>>72924
>>
>> Is it memory leak?
> 
> 
> 'Cached' is increasing, while 'used' is increasing in about the same
> amount. So this is OK.

I'd say the same.

May I refer to
   http://www.aplawrence.com/Bofcusm/2118.html

You may want to run 'free' to take a look at the memory usage. See also

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/custom-guide/s1-sysinfo-memory-usage.html

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Friedrich Lobenstock
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Friedrich Lobenstock                       Linux Services Lobenstock
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