DBASE memory leaks revisited

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Javier Abadia Miranda (abadia++at++sgonyx.ita.es)
Thu, 21 May 1998 17:16:00 +0000


Hello

I am experiencing some problems with dbase management.

I page in and out many pieces of a terrain dbase. And
I notice that memory consumption is always increasing.

With gmemusage I can see that what is actually getting
bigger is Irix memory space, particulary an area called
FS Cache.

I assume that this memory area is File System cache,
so I first thought that I had some files opened and not
closed.

I have revised my code and I am quite sure that I
close every open file.

Other "curious" effect is that if I stop moving
during a while, the FS cache starts going down.

Does Irix keep data from closed files in memory?

Is there a way to prevent Irix consuming this
phisical memory to speed up my application?

Thank you.

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