Ok, I tested it in various ways and tried to force OOM killer to step in but it never did and all worked fine.
So yeah, this is not a bug. Shame you can't somehow force to clear the cache and see actual ram use. It can look disturbing. ------- Original Message ------- On Monday, May 15th, 2023 at 12:24, Rudolf Leitgeb <rudolf.leit...@gmx.at> wrote: > I am anything but an OpenBSD expert, but from other operating systems > knowledge I would suggest, that you see file system cache in action. > > Your system comes with much more RAM than needed, at least initially, > and that RAM is used to cache slow hard disk operations. If you copy > 100MB, these 100MB will be loaded in RAM and will stay there, until > other processes need that RAM and file system cache is flushed. > > You can verify this easily by repeatedly calling that command. Keep > copying that large file and deleting the copy, and check, whether your > RAM irretrievably fills up, or whether everything remains fine. > > On Mon, 2023-05-15 at 09:10 +0000, bugreport555 wrote: >
