[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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