2009-09-26 23:17:30 Putting Data in memory takes twice the space needed

Dusko Cencan (GERMANY)

Message: 80508

Hi,

There are some funny things going around on my blackfin 527. When I copy a file of approx. 4mb to the memory via NFS (the system uses initramFS), the file is listed as 4mb (via ls -l), but "free" shows 8mb less memory left. When I delete the file, I got only 4mb freed of the 8mb.

Shortly:

Before: 20mb free

With 4MB file: 12mb free

After Deleting 4MB file: 16mb free

Does anyone have an idea? Where is the rest of the memory?

Best regards,

Dusko Cencan

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2009-09-26 23:22:39 Re: Putting Data in memory takes twice the space needed

Sonic Zhang (CHINA)

Message: 80509

Because VFS cached your file pages for both NFS remote FS and you local root FS in ram.