linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.24-rc7: memory leak?

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Date:	Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:21:20 +0200
From:	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	CaT <cat@....com.au>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc7: memory leak?

Hi,

On Jan 17, 2008 8:34 AM, CaT <cat@....com.au> wrote:
> There are 75 processes on the box of which almost 47 are kernel
> processes + init. Of the rest, the top 3 have an RSS of 9.4meg, 6.2meg
> and 4.8meg, 7 are at around 2meg and the rest are below 2meg with the
> majority below 1. So unless I'm misunderstanding something, processess
> alone do not account for the amount of used memory.

Looking at /proc/slabinfo, 965 MB is used by the ext3 inode cache and
144 MB by the dentry cache.

                              Pekka
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