From: cfs@mathcs.emory.edu (Charles Stephens (guest - exp 9/1/93)) Subject: Re: .p11 memory leak ??? Date: 28 Jul 1993 16:41:39 GMT
bob myers (bmyers@shyguy.lonestar.org) wrote:
: I've installed p11 full distribution on my machine at home (dtk-80486-25,
: 16 mb ram/676 mb esdi drive). After rebooting, I've seen my free area
: reported by either top or free to be around 9 mb or better. However
: checking 24 hrs later (only having one virtual console going), I see
: that I'm down to 600~800k of free space.
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 15464 15136 328 2032 13144
Swap: 0 0 0
Notice that I only have 328K free, but the dynamic allocation of buffers
will hog memory when available, but it should release it when it is needed
by processes.