badblock leaks system memory?

["Bizhan Gholikhamseh (bgholikh)" <bgholikh@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi ALL,

After rebooting my system, the free command indicate plenty of memory on my system:

 

:>free
              total         used         free       shared      buffers
  Mem:       516180       369948       146232            0       262256
 Swap:            0            0            0
Total:       516180       369948       146232

Then I ran badblock command:

:> badblock -sv /dev/hda

 

This time free command shows much much less memory, it seems "buffers" have got all the memory, but how do I release it?

 :>free
              total         used         free       shared      buffers
  Mem:       516180       508844         7336            0       399440
 Swap:            0            0            0
Total:       516180       508844         7336

 

Thanks,

Biz