Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | "yuval yeret" <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.20-18 size-4096 memory leaks | Date | Wed, 26 Nov 2003 16:14:21 +0200 |
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>From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com> > >That's not a leak, it simply sounds like cache effects. atime updates >result in journal commits under ext3, and those use at least a couple of >buffers at a time (one for the metadata descriptor block in the journal, >one for the journal commit.) Those aren't leaks --- they are temporary >use of cache, and once the IO has complete the memory can be immediately >reclaimed by the kernel if it is needed for anything else.
I'm using noatime for my ext3 mount points ...
> >Cheers, > Stephen > >
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