Re: 2.2.STABLE5 Possible Memory Leak?

At 14:43 09.11.99 -0500, Jim Richey wrote:
>Running on Solaris 2.6 with latest patches. [...]
>When the system is first booted there is about 500MB of free memory and
>squid has 22MB according to top. After six days the amount of free
>memory is 375MB and top reports that squid has 44MB. If I stop squid
>with squid -k shutdown the system gets back the 44MB squid was using,
>but the other 81MB never gets freed.

I'd assume that Solaris has claimed those 81MB for its buffer cache.
Free memory is wasted memory, so the OS tries to put it to good use.
It will give it back if some process ever needs it.

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