From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from fsuj20.rz.uni-jena.de (fsuj20.rz.uni-jena.de [141.35.1.18]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA20626 for ; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 02:42:20 -0500 Message-ID: <36F8974A.D4EB4BAD@imsid.uni-jena.de> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 08:42:02 +0100 From: Matthias Arnold MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: [Fwd: LINUX-MM] Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------015E290428FAC0B1C9653924" Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------015E290428FAC0B1C9653924 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -- ***************************************************************** * Matthias Arnold * Klinikum der Friedrich-Schiller-Universitaet * Institut fuer Med. Statistik, Informatik und Dokumentation * Jahnstrasse 3 * D-07743 Jena * * email:iia@imsid.uni-jena.de * Tel. :+49-3641-934130 * FAX :+49-3641-933200 ****************************************************************** --------------015E290428FAC0B1C9653924 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-ID: <36F895C4.1801DBE6@imsid.uni-jena.de> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 08:35:32 +0100 From: Matthias Arnold Organization: imsid.uni-jena.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.1.128 i686) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" Subject: Re: LINUX-MM References: <199903231549.KAA20478@x15-cruise-basselope> <14071.53276.848923.609704@dukat.scot.redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > 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. Thanks to the community for dealing with my problems.Before we go on to discuss this as bug or feature I emphasize that this memory effect is really disastrous for me. I hope that changing the kernel (as Rik told me) helps. Any suggestion is very welcome. Matthias -- ***************************************************************** * Matthias Arnold * Klinikum der Friedrich-Schiller-Universitaet * Institut fuer Med. Statistik, Informatik und Dokumentation * Jahnstrasse 3 * D-07743 Jena * * email:iia@imsid.uni-jena.de * Tel. :+49-3641-934130 * FAX :+49-3641-933200 ****************************************************************** --------------015E290428FAC0B1C9653924-- -- 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/