[ale] Disk performance

[Ed Cashin]

On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 8:38 PM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>wrote:
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> Well, looks like mostly still working although it has a memory leak
> somewhere.  The free memory (according to top) is slowly dropping.  It went
> from 380MB to 365MB in about two hours so 15MB went somewhere during that
> time.  Probably one of the cron jobs or apache, just don't know which yet.
>

If you haven't already, you might check whether that memory is simply being
used to cache stuff.  Linux aggressively caches blocks from disk in pages
of memory, which is usually a convenience.

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  Ed Cashin <ecashin at noserose.net>
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