Re: Aptitude Version: 0.4.11.2-1 eat my memory after update...
On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 03:39:08PM +0200, Jean-Louis Crouzet <jeanlouis.crouzet@free.fr> was heard to say:
> Jean-Louis Crouzet wrote:
>> available memory.
>>
>> #free -t
>>
>> You may then observe that free memory left is more than slightly
>> different from previous poll, let say something has been lost
>> somewhere...
>>
>> Thanks,
>> JL
>>
>>
>
> So I assume I'm the only one ;-)
No, it's just that it takes more than 5 hours sometimes to get an
answer. This is not a bug anywhere; what you're seeing is that aptitude
reads a lot of data and causes the buffer cache to expand.
Daniel
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