On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 08:49:34AM +0100, U.Mutlu wrote:
> U.Mutlu wrote on 12/04/2015 08:15 AM:
> >Hi,
> >when I as root do "touch /forcefsck" and reboot, then fsck will be done.
> >But afterwards one has less free memory available than normal.
> >Example:
> >used mem immediately after login:
> > without fsck during boot: 98 MB (this the normal level here)
> > with fsck during boot : 139 MB
> >So, there is a memory leak of about 41 MB.
>
> This discrepancy is reproducible here, ie. happens always.
>
> Not sure, but it could also be a kernel issue, because
> the longer the system runs the more memory gets bound.
> The source of the culprit is not easily detectable.
> I guess it gets eaten by the kernel, probably by the ext4-driver.
>
> >fsck from util-linux 2.25.2
> >Filesys: ext4, 500 MB SSD
>
> fix: of course 500 GB was meant
>
> >OS: Debian 8 X86_64, uptodate
And are you talking about fsck (wrapper) or fsck.ext4 (from
e2fsprogs)?
Karel
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