[Dirvish] large memory footprint

[Arash Abghari]

Hi,
> 'free' output is not really very good indication. I think you should
> subtract the unused buffer space (13945).
> I think what's happening is that the dirvish run reads a lot of data
> from the disk and uses up 13GB of buffer space, which is still 'hot'
> after dirvish terminates---the system has no way of knowing that you
> won't need that again soon, so it's not discarded right away,  but
> will be dropped as soon as the buffer space is needed.
>
> cat /proc/meminfo  is a better, more detailed summary of what's in your memory.
>
/proc/meminfo repots the same memory usage as free does.
According to this 
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-server-73/rsync-hogs-memory-758345/ 
thraed, it is related to rsyncing large directory tree and inodes buffer 
and the memory can be claimed by issueing  "sync; echo 2 > 
/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches". It did indeed solve my high memory usage 
problem.

Thanks,

Arash