How can the total memory consumption rise without top/htop displaying increasing processes' use?
Shlomi Fish <[email protected]>
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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 consumption. And the memory gets freed after I quit VLC Player.
Why? How is it possible? Where does all the memory go?
I'm on mageia v6 x86-64 with :
shlomif@telaviv1:~$ uname -a
Linux telaviv1.shlomifish.org 4.7.0-desktop-2.mga6 #1 SMP Sat Jul 30
21:54:30 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Is this a bug somewhere? Any insights will be appreciated.
Regards,
-- Shlomi Fish
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