Re: Updates to kdelibs3 or Aha, I knew something was wrong!

[Rogerio Brito <rbrito@iname.com>]

On May 03 2001, Rob Weir wrote:
> > 	This memory leak also seems to have evidenced another memory
> > 	leak: it *seems* that Linux 2.4.4 also has a memory leak
> > 	(memory which was allocated on swap after the Konqueror thing
> > 	didn't get back even *after* I went to the console using
> > 	single user mode!).
> I'm fairly sure that this is a deliberate design decision in all the 2.4.x 
> kernels.  Once memory is swapped out, it is not removed from the swap, even 
> if the page is swapped back in to physical RAM.
> Here's a discussion about it from on kernel traffic: 
> http://kt.zork.net/kernel-traffic/kt20010330_113.html#6

	I have not tested this extensively (I was so scared that I'm
	running the trusted and tried, good ole 2.2.19 right now, with
	some lovely patches), but I think that I'll retest it again
	(now, I'll have to find another application to stuff the
	memory) and report whatever I find (i.e., if memory can be
	reclaimed or not).

	Anyway, thanks for briging that to my attention. I stopped
	following lkml one or two months ago (I need to study much,
	much, much more if I ever want to grow up). :-)


	[]s, Roger...

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