Am I storing data on /tmp.
I'm not storing data on /tmp but I do send the STDOUT of the programme to a log file on /tmp.
I don't know if the nature of the /tmp filesystem,
$ df -k .

Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on

swap 7077352 1652448 5424904 24% /tmp

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Does that mean that it is of type "swap"? Sorry for my ignorance.

and

no ramdisks on this machine

Actually, you do have a ramdisk on the machine. swapfs / tmpfs / ramdisk are functionally the same thing. They will take blocks from your vm system to use for a disk interface to the system.

Is the size of the logfile in your /tmp filesystem the same as the amount of memory that you are seeing your system go down by?

--MidLifeXis

In reply to Re^2: memory not freed after perl exits. Solaris. by MidLifeXis
in thread memory not freed after perl exits. Solaris. by Workplane

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