From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 6 09:45:14 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA12905 for current-outgoing; Mon, 6 Mar 1995 09:45:14 -0800 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA12899 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 1995 09:45:13 -0800 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA18467; Mon, 6 Mar 95 10:38:18 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9503061738.AA18467@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: "Text file busy" with program not running anymore? To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Mon, 6 Mar 95 10:38:17 MST Cc: jhay@mikom.csir.co.za, current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199503051618.IAA00160@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Mar 5, 95 08:18:06 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >Does this mean that the space allocated on disk to those programs will > >not be freed until you unmount that disk or reboot? > > No, it only means that the space will be consumed until either the file is > rm'd or the vnode is pushed out of the cache (or the disk is unmounted - > which uncaches all of the associated vnodes). Luckily, the working set limitations mean that this will probably take as effectively long as "until you unmount that disk or reboot". Isn't that true? Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.