Date: Mon, 6 Mar 95 10:38:17 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: davidg@Root.COM Cc: jhay@mikom.csir.co.za, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: "Text file busy" with program not running anymore? Message-ID: <9503061738.AA18467@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <199503051618.IAA00160@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Mar 5, 95 08:18:06 am
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> >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.
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