Às 08:12 de 15-02-2016, Johannes Bauer escreveu: > On 15.02.2016 03:21, Paulo da Silva wrote: > >> So far I tried the program twice and it ran perfectly. > > I think you measured your RAM consumption wrong. > > Linux uses all free RAM as HDD cache. That's what is used in "buffers". > That is, it's not "free", but it would be free if any process would > sbrk(). My guess is that you only looked at the "free" number going down > and concluded your program is eating your RAM. Which it wasn't. > No, for sure. I monitored (using atop) free, cache and swap. In general, because I only have 2GB, freemem is almost always a few tens of MB. Remaining "free" memory is in Cache. When Cache goes low it begins to swap out.
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