Re: More evidence of a possible memory leak in 2.2-STABLE-2 ?

From: Alex Rousskov <rousskov@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 11:22:28 -0600 (MDT)

On Tue, 18 May 1999 Ted_Rule@flextech.co.uk wrote:

> Total in use: 62819 KB
> Total accounted: 43532 KB
>
> which seems a reasonably significant discrepancy to me....

The discrepancy by itself is just an evidence of poor accounting (which
is a known problem). A leak evidence would be the growth of the "Total
in use" figure. The leak is "trackable" when the growth is attributed to
"Total accounted" and can be isolated using "Memory Utilization" stats.

Alex.
Received on Tue May 18 1999 - 11:16:26 MDT

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