Re: How can the total memory consumption rise without top/htop displaying increasing processes' use?

Maybe it's writing/logging something to a tmpfs folder (like /tmp) -- Rabin On 3 August 2016 at 16:43, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi all, > > On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 3:23 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > >> Hi all! >> >> I reported a bug in VLC earlier today about it

Re: How can the total memory consumption rise without top/htop displaying increasing processes' use?

Hi all, On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 3:23 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi all! > > I reported a bug in VLC earlier today about it causing increasing total > RAM consumption: > > https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/17241 > > However, the strange thing is when it happens, the %MEM usage

Re: How can the total memory consumption rise without top/htop displaying increasing processes' use?

Hi E. S., On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 3:37 PM, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: > This is just a hunch but I think filesystem caching is not counted > towards a process' memory usage, so if you are playing a large movie a > large chunk (or the whole file) may be kept in memory by the

Re: How can the total memory consumption rise without top/htop displaying increasing processes' use?

This is just a hunch but I think filesystem caching is not counted towards a process' memory usage, so if you are playing a large movie a large chunk (or the whole file) may be kept in memory by the filesystem driver while being memory that is 'available' for immediate freeing it is counted as

How can the total memory consumption rise without top/htop displaying increasing processes' use?

Hi all! I reported a bug in VLC earlier today about it causing increasing total RAM consumption: https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/17241 However, the strange thing is when it happens, the %MEM usage of the system increases, but I don't see it in htop/top (as root)'s individual processes' RAM