[paranoia] Memory leak?!?
Michael Knigge
mk at set-software.de
Thu Mar 9 03:30:55 PST 2000
> Zathras says "wrong tool".
All other tools are reporting the same - this is ok, because they
all read the memory-infos from the /proc filesystem:
$ cat /proc/meminfo
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 31240192 25407488 5832704 15097856 11673600 5603328
Swap: 98664448 24576 98639872
MemTotal: 30508 kB
MemFree: 5696 kB
MemShared: 14744 kB
Buffers: 11400 kB
Cached: 5472 kB
SwapTotal: 96352 kB
SwapFree: 96328 kB
$ free
total used free shared buffers
cached
Mem: 30508 24808 5700 14768 11400
5472
-/+ buffers/cache: 7936 22572
Swap: 96352 24 96328
> Among other things, a process doesn't take up memory after it exits.
The pages
> are deallocated by the kernel, not the process.
Yes, but why is cdparanoia allocating more and more and more memory
during
runtime?
Bye
Michael
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