Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: memory leak? | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 21 Jul 2002 17:33:44 +0100 |
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> > This memory will be reclaimed when the system needs it. > > Does this mean that free and /proc/meminfo are incorrect?
By its own definition proc/meminfo is correct. top could go rummaging in /proc/slabinfo but its questionable if it is meaningful to do so. The actually "out of memory" case for a virtual memory system is not "no memory pages free" nor "no memory or swap free" its closer to "working set plus i/o buffers exceeds memory size".
That isnt something as easy to visualise or compute as "free"
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