From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from MIT.EDU (SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU [18.72.1.2]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA12370 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 10:49:34 -0500 Message-Id: <199903231549.KAA20478@x15-cruise-basselope> Subject: Re: LINUX-MM In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 23 Mar 1999 15:16:54 +0100." Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 10:49:11 EST From: Kev Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Rik van Riel Cc: Matthias Arnold , Linux MM List-ID: > > Thanks for your reply.Unfortunately the memory is not (at least > > not completely) returned to the system after the program has > > finished (as the OS comand 'free' tells me). > > Hmm, what version of the kernel are you using? > > 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. -- Kevin L. Mitchell ------------------------- -. .---- --.. ..- -..- -------------------------- http://web.mit.edu/klmitch/www/ (PGP keys availiable from here) RSA AE87D37D/1024: DE EA 1E 99 3F 2B F9 23 A0 D8 05 E0 6F BA B9 D2 DSS ED0DB34E/1024: D9BF 0E74 FDCB 43F5 C597 878F 9455 EC24 ED0D B34E DH 2A2C31D4/2048: 1A77 4BA5 9E32 14AE 87DA 9FEC 7106 FC62 2A2C 31D4 -- 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/