Memory released after running rsync

From	gamo <gamo@telecable.es>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Memory released after running rsync
Date	2015-11-29 14:51 +0100
Organization	Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID	<n3evtg$7hi$1@speranza.aioe.org> (permalink)

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Hello,

I have a desktop machine with 32 GB RAM, and as expected most of
the memory is used as a cache. Sometimes I have few memory free,
less than 1 GB, and happens that after running 'rsync' the memory
reported by 'free' as free is increased notably. So the question
is: what kind of magic do the rsync program?

Thanks. Regards.

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Memory released after running rsync gamo <gamo@telecable.es> - 2015-11-29 14:51 +0100
  Re: Memory released after running rsync William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-11-29 20:12 +0000
    Re: Memory released after running rsync gamo <gamo@telecable.es> - 2015-11-29 21:56 +0100
      Re: Memory released after running rsync William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-11-29 21:16 +0000
        Re: Memory released after running rsync gamo <gamo@telecable.es> - 2015-11-29 23:52 +0100
      Re: Memory released after running rsync Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2015-11-30 00:33 +0100
        Re: Memory released after running rsync gamo <gamo@telecable.es> - 2015-11-30 07:16 +0100
          Re: Memory released after running rsync Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2015-12-01 18:04 +0200
            Re: Memory released after running rsync gamo <gamo@telecable.es> - 2015-12-01 23:49 +0100
  Re: Memory released after running rsync Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2015-11-29 18:36 -0800

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