From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from dukat.scot.redhat.com (sct@[195.89.149.246]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA13478 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 12:32:23 -0500 From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14071.53276.848923.609704@dukat.scot.redhat.com> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 17:32:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Re: LINUX-MM In-Reply-To: <199903231549.KAA20478@x15-cruise-basselope> References: <199903231549.KAA20478@x15-cruise-basselope> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Kev Cc: Rik van Riel , Matthias Arnold , Linux MM List-ID: Hi, On Tue, 23 Mar 1999 10:49:11 EST, Kev 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 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm my@address' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://humbolt.geo.uu.nl/Linux-MM/