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