Re: Memory Black Hole

2005-09-21 Thread Joe Smith
S3GFAULT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- SUMMARY: Files or chunks of files from the root (reiserfs) partition are being inserted into memory at the rate of 4-16k/5 secs (2.4.18) or 60k/5 secs (2.6.8). This memory is never freed. This

Memory Black Hole

2005-09-20 Thread S3GFAULT
Hi all, The subject of this message could have been 'Memory Leak' but honestly that doesn't sound dramatic enough for my problem. Warning, this turned out to be a longish email, for the impatient, please skip to the section marked SUMMARY at the bottom. Last summer (2004) I installed Debian

Re: Memory Black Hole

2005-09-20 Thread Maximillian Murphy
That's interesting! Do keep us posted if you find out what it is. Sorry I can't help. I'm at the beginning of the learning curve, not high up. I seem to remember that the first thing a computer does on booting is to copy a chunk of data from the primary partition into RAM and execute it. Is

Re: Memory Black Hole

2005-09-20 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 9/20/05, S3GFAULT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, The subject of this message could have been 'Memory Leak' but honestly that doesn't sound dramatic enough for my problem. Warning, this turned out to be a longish email, for the impatient, please skip to the section marked SUMMARY at the