From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 15 09:02:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA19397 for stable-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 09:02:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from haywire.DIALix.COM (root@haywire.DIALix.COM [192.203.228.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA19378 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 09:02:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from news@localhost) by haywire.DIALix.COM (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA16652 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 00:02:08 +0800 (WST) Received: from GATEWAY by haywire.DIALix.COM with netnews for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org (problems to: usenet@haywire.dialix.com) To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: 15 Jul 1996 16:02:08 GMT From: peter@spinner.DIALix.COM (Peter Wemm) Message-ID: <4sdq20$b43$1@haywire.DIALix.COM> Organization: DIALix Services, Perth, Australia. References: <199607120110.TAA21879@rover.village.org> Subject: Re: Uptime report Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article <199607120110.TAA21879@rover.village.org>, imp@village.org (Warner Losh) writes: > Like I said, at this point, I'm willing just to chalk it up to my > getting a not quite stable -stable kernel and see if I have similar > problems with the -current kernel/system that I'll be building while I > sleep tonight. [*] Any chance you use a MFS /tmp? That consumes lots of swap and doesn't give it back once you delete files. (it faults the pages in, and once they are "allocated" they are never freed.) Try unmounting /tmp and see if that brings it back. (beware any files will disappear). -Peter