I didn't run it that many times but here is what I have with aptitude
0.4.11.2:
# free -t
total used free shared buffers
cached
Mem: 3108760 2983624 125136 0 219612
417832
-/+ buffers/cache: 2346180 762580
Swap: 4883752 195548 4688204
Total: 7992512 3179172 4813340
# aptitude
# free -t
total used free shared buffers
cached
Mem: 3108760 2990780 117980 0 219692
424684
-/+ buffers/cache: 2346404 762356
Swap: 4883752 195548 4688204
Total: 7992512 3186328 4806184
# aptitude
# free -t
total used free shared buffers
cached
Mem: 3108760 2992424 116336 0 219968
425420
-/+ buffers/cache: 2347036 761724
Swap: 4883752 195548 4688204
Total: 7992512 3187972 4804540
# aptitude
# free -t
total used free shared buffers
cached
Mem: 3108760 2992808 115952 0 219992
425424
-/+ buffers/cache: 2347392 761368
Swap: 4883752 195548 4688204
Total: 7992512 3188356 4804156
Hope this helps you.
Chris
________________________________
From: Javier Barroso [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 10:15 AM
To: Stackpole, Chris
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Aptitude Version: 0.4.11.2-1 eat my memory after update...
I don't known .. I'm running aptitude 0.4.11.3-1 from sid
I did 10 times aptitude && free -t
And then I got the diff (of buffer/cached used info) between each one of
both consecutive aptitude executions:
480
4392
-2732
2956
48
-48
-2644
2412
-4
64
I don't see these diff
I hope this helps
Sorry for my english
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Stackpole, Chris
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I can confirm. It does seem to change by about 6MB every time I run it.
Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Jean-Louis Crouzet
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 8:39 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Aptitude Version: 0.4.11.2-1 eat my memory after update...
Jean-Louis Crouzet wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Am I the only one having this under Lenny?
>
> When running just after first login (as root) the following:
> #free -t
>
> Observe free Memory left (you might even want to write it down)
>
> Then run
>
> #aptitude
>
> get a fresh update (press u key ;-)
>
> then quit aptitude, you know how to do this. Then check out again your
> available memory.
>
> #free -t
>
> You may then observe that free memory left is more than slightly
> different from previous poll, let say something has been lost
somewhere...
>
> Thanks,
> JL
>
>
So I assume I'm the only one ;-)
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