On Sun, 2018-03-25 at 17:10 +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote: > On the other hand, once I closed the audacity windows, the kernel > released about 3BG of memory: > > $ smem -tw > Area Used Cache Noncache > firmware/hardware 0 0 0 > kernel image 0 0 0 > kernel dynamic memory 12031840 8955868 3075972 > userspace memory 2902768 546996 2355772 > free memory 1504308 1504308 0 > ---------------------------------------------------------- > 16438916 11007172 5431744 > > Feel free to close this bug if you think it's invalid.. [...]
Well it doesn't seem likely to be a kernel leak if the memory is freed by ending the process. It looks like audacity stores working data in /tmp/audacity-<username>. If you have a tmpfs mounted on /tmp then this probably explains the growth in "noncache" kernel memory usage. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings When in doubt, use brute force. - Ken Thompson
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