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| From | William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.misc |
| Subject | Re: Memory released after running rsync |
| Date | 2015-11-29 20:12 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <n3fm6o$eqm$2@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <n3evtg$7hi$1@speranza.aioe.org> |
On 2015-11-29, gamo <gamo@telecable.es> wrote: > > 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? memory which is unused is used by Linux as program chache. Instead of releasing the program memory, the program is kept in memory in case it is reused. HOwever, if some other program requires the memory, it is released. Thus probably rsync uses that memory, and then releases it before shutting down. Thus the memory is now free. It is no longer used for program cache because that use was supreceeded by rsync, and no longer used by rsync either. The above is just a guess. > > 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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