Blocks that are not being used should be returned to memory (pageouts)
but those leaky programs won't always do that, they leak. This forces
the filesystem to reconcile its internal bookkeeping (I think).
Jerry
On Monday, February 17, 2003, at 10:28 AM, Bill Rising wrote:
> On 2/17/03 10:00, Jerry Yeager wrote
>
>> I can understand that.
>>
>> Try this one for getting 'lost memory' back
>>
>> top
>> sudo du -sx /
>>
>> The disk will whirl for a while, then you will see the 'free memory'
>> rise (sometimes a lot if you have had a memory leak).
>>
>
> Worked as advertised, and I ended up with more free memory. What does
> it
> du (hehehe)? When I looked at the man page (translation: 'man' is the
> manual for unix, so typing 'man du' gives the help page), it stated
> that
> it displayed disk usage statistics. So... why would it free up memory?
>
> Bill
>
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