> I noticed that doing lots or file accesses causes the used memory to
> increase, *after* subtracting buffers/cache. Here is an example:
> Here 24 MB of memory have been used up. Repeating the du seems to have
> little effect. This directory has ~3200 subdirs and 13400 files.
> Is this a memory leak? I get the same results with ext2, ext3,
> reiserfs and nfs.
See /proc/slabinfo for the numbers, the memory is most likely
being used in the dentry_cache, the inode_cache and in buffer
heads.
This memory will be reclaimed when the system needs it.
regards,
Rik
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