[SunHELP] memory leak under Solaris 7

[Jon]

Yes, that helps. After running the thing down to about 7 megs free it
ended up freeing up ram when needed and it went back up to ~39 megs free.

I do appreciate yours and Dale's help. Take care.

Jon


On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:

> Because it is using the memory as disk buffer.  Imagine a normal
> shell session where you keep using vi.  After the first time,
> Solaris has vi buffered.  No loading from disk.  If it,  as you
> seem to want it to, released the memory immediately, next time
> you types 'vi' it would have to re-load from disk.  Bingo, slower
> system.
>
> However, Solaris is pretty smart.  If you aren't running vi and
> you need the physical memory, it releases that buffer.  It just
> won't do it before there is a need.
>
> Unused memory is wasted memory.  And solaris is a big believer in
> that. It will use everything it can to make the system faster.
>
> Hope this helps to explain.
>
> --Kurt
>
> On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 bigj at flatwan.net wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the reply Dale. I guess my only question now is why the system
> > doesn't return the memory to other processes once it's done. What's
> > happening  now is it just keeps removing ram until there is none left.
>
> > Jon
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