On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 14:03:51 -0700, Jay Thorne <jay@kesoftware.com>
said:
> What I cannot understand is where that memory could possibly have gone. Is
> my test far too naive for words? Is there some mechanism that I do not
> understand at work here?
It could be lost in the dcache, inode cache, or slab cache. The dcache
and slab cache will shrink themselves automatically on demand.
--Stephen
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