Re: Gigantic memory leak in linux-2.6.[789]!

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 22 October 2004 11:07, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>while true ; do tar -xzf linux-2.6.9.tar.gz ; rm -rf linux-2.6.9 ;
> vmstat ; done

Stable, yes.  But only after about 3 or 4 iterations.  The first 3 
rather handily used 500+ megs of memory that I did not get back when 
I stopped it and cleaned up the mess.

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