Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 11:19:23 +0200 From: Alexander Sanda <entropy@compufit.at> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: encountered possible VM bug ? Message-ID: <19980824111923.A207@compufit.at>
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Hi I'am running -current (dated 08/17) on a PPro/200, Gigabyte MB, 128 M. Ok, what happened ? While I was playing with the KDE newsreader (krn), I encountered a bug in krn, probably caused by some kind of infinite recursion or similar. Fact is, while krn tried to "thread" a group, it started to eat memory like crazy. After a while, I noticed quite a bit swapping. I checked ps, and found out that krn has allocated more than 160 MB (!!) of RAM (I have 128 physical, about 100 MB swap). I assume, that the overall memory consumtion of the system must have been somewhere around 200 MB at this time. I was running X, full KDE desktop; a Netscape session and a copy of gimp were active on another desktop aswell). However, I managed to kill -9 the crazy krn app, and everything seemed to be ok. The only message I found in the log is: Aug 24 01:53:05 darkstar /kernel: swap_pager: suggest more swap space: 254 MB Next time, I tried to connect to my local newsserver (nntpd, handled by inetd), I got an error. I telnet'ed to port 119 and got something like "realloc() junk pointer, too low" as an error message from inetd. I had to kill and restart inetd to restore normal operation. What the hell happened to inetd ? BTW: no other problems occured so far; system is still up and running. -- # /AS/ http://privat.schlund.de/entropy/ # # # # XX has detected, that your mouse cursor has changed position. Please # # restart XX, so it can be updated. -- From The Gimp manual # To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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