From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Kev <klmitch@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@nl.linux.org>,
Matthias Arnold <Matthias.Arnold@edda.imsid.uni-jena.de>,
Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: LINUX-MM
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 17:32:12 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14071.53276.848923.609704@dukat.scot.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199903231549.KAA20478@x15-cruise-basselope>
Hi,
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999 10:49:11 EST, Kev <klmitch@MIT.EDU> said:
>> IIRC there's a slight bug in some of the newer kernels
>> where the swap cache isn't being freed when you exit
>> your program, but only later on when the system tries
>> to reclaim memory...
> I believe the problem lies in the fact that there is not enough
> SysV shared memory available.
It's nothing to do with SysV shared memory.
The behaviour is there, but the only impact on the normal user will be
that "free" lies a little. No big deal: it just shows up as cache. The
effect is only a matter of when we recover the memory, not whether we
recover it.
--Stephen
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-03-23 17:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <36F7A0CD.C1361112@imsid.uni-jena.de>
1999-03-23 14:16 ` LINUX-MM Rik van Riel
1999-03-23 15:49 ` LINUX-MM Kev
1999-03-23 16:31 ` LINUX-MM Kev
1999-03-23 17:32 ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
[not found] ` <36F895C4.1801DBE6@imsid.uni-jena.de>
[not found] ` <14072.61375.667166.523842@dukat.scot.redhat.com>
[not found] ` <36F8F7DD.6DF9E048@imsid.uni-jena.de>
1999-03-24 14:38 ` LINUX-MM Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-03-24 0:23 ` LINUX-MM Andrea Arcangeli
1999-03-24 0:33 ` LINUX-MM Rik van Riel
1999-03-24 13:56 ` LINUX-MM Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-03-24 17:14 ` LINUX-MM Andrea Arcangeli
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