Bug#605078: pulseaudio: creates large SHM that use up lots of memory

[James Andrewartha]

On Sat, 18 Dec 2010, Daniel Chen wrote:

> tags 605078 + wontfix
> thanks
> 
> Please see http://pulseaudio.org/ticket/806, which explains why ls -l
> /dev/shm is misleading.

Right, du reports 17M total. So it's probably not pulse related, but do 
you have any idea why I still have huge amounts of cache memory that can't 
be gotten rid of by 'echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches'?

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