Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 18:44:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Webster <andrew@fortress.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Uptime report Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960711184219.4080C-100000@guardian.fortress.org> In-Reply-To: <199607112052.OAA20869@rover.village.org>
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On Thu, 11 Jul 1996, Warner Losh wrote: > However, I've noticed that when I killed X I still had 33M in swap > space in use. The only things on the machine were the tcsh process > and my ps (and a couple inits and xdm daemons). I have 32M of > physical memory, so it smells like a swap leak of some kind. Very easy to reproduce, run netscape for a couple of days. It seems that when it allocates memory for all those .gif and .jpg icons and pictures, the memory becomes fragmented and is never recovered fully. After a while you run out of swap space. Happens on an SGI running IRIX 5.3 as well as under FreeBSD 2.1.0-stable Solution, quit X every so often, all your memory comes back. One could then deduce that the leak is somewhere in X11R6. Andrew Webster - andrew@pubnix.net - http://www.pubnix.net PubNIX Montreal - Connected to the world - Branche au monde 514-990-5911 - P.O. Box 147, Cote St-Luc, Quebec, H4V 2Y3
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