memory leak

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2002-04-14 12:16, Peter Pissias wrote:
> Geia se olous,
> 
> Exw slackware me kernel 2.4.10.
> 
> Parathrhsa pws meta apo ena 'find / .... '
> h meta thn ektelesh ths updatedb apo ta 256mb mnhmhs
> xrhsimopoiountai ta 252-3 ... (prin thn ektelesh xrhsimopoiountai ta 40).

The wonders of caching!

Parathrhses kai to ejhs mhpos?  To deutero "find /" fusaei, kai skizei
se taxuthta.  Den ksanadiabazei ton disko, alla to in-core cash pou
exei krathsei to kernel sou, xrhsimopoiwntas thn physical memory san
cache.  Opws leei ki ena palio rhto ston kosmo tou Unix den einai kako
na min exeis free memory.  To kako einai na exeis memory kai na
kathetai kaigontas reuma, xoris na xrhsimopoieitai gia kati kalo :)))

Giorgos Keramidas                       FreeBSD Documentation Project
keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr}  http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/