From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 19 6:58: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from relay.ucb.crimea.ua (relay.ucb.crimea.ua [212.110.138.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E35E15604 for ; Wed, 19 May 1999 06:52:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ru@ucb.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by relay.ucb.crimea.ua (8.9.3/8.9.3/UCB) id QAA63703; Wed, 19 May 1999 16:04:34 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru) Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 16:04:34 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Ilya Balashov Cc: Greg Quinlan , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Not reproduceable on real -stable (Was: Re: Memory leaks & kernel panic/reboot & ahc reboot) Message-ID: <19990519160434.A60737@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> Mail-Followup-To: Ilya Balashov , Greg Quinlan , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <002401bea1db$30df4180$380051c2@greg.qmpgmc.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: ; from Ilya Balashov on Wed, May 19, 1999 at 03:07:13PM +0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 03:07:13PM +0400, Ilya Balashov wrote: > reproduce is too easy.... > reboot system... > run "top"... and remember free memory... > run "tar cvf /dev/null /usr" > run "top" again... and almost all free memory LEAKED !!!! > This is not reproduceable on my 3.2-STABLE system: FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE #0: Sun May 16 23:51:55 EEST 1999 CPU: Pentium Pro (198.67-MHz 686-class CPU) real memory = 33554432 (32768K bytes) avail memory = 29945856 (29244K bytes) ahc0: rev 0x00 int a irq 11 on pci0.13.0 ahc0: aic7880 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 8, 16bit) da0: 4157MB (8515173 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 4157C) } Just after ``tar cf /dev/null /usr'' has been started: +------- | last pid: 41864; load averages: 1.19, 1.21, 1.14 up 2+14:12:35 14:42:24 | 88 processes: 3 running, 85 sleeping | | Mem: 11M Active, 2876K Inact, 11M Wired, 4272K Cache, 3456K Buf, 488K Free | Swap: 96M Total, 48M Used, 48M Free, 50% Inuse | | | PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND | 262 ru 101 0 1684K 288K RUN 21.5H 91.11% 91.11% mutt | 41636 ru -6 0 548K 280K biord 0:10 1.76% 1.76% tar | 41819 root -6 0 520K 228K piperd 0:00 1.54% 0.15% sh +------- } In the middle of the process: +------- | last pid: 47507; load averages: 0.62, 1.07, 1.13 up 2+14:29:51 14:59:40 | 78 processes: 78 sleeping | | Mem: 12M Active, 2840K Inact, 11M Wired, 3504K Cache, 3461K Buf, 488K Free | Swap: 96M Total, 45M Used, 51M Free, 47% Inuse | | | PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND | 41636 ru -6 0 548K 280K biord 0:37 2.15% 2.15% tar +------- } Right after it has finished: +------- | last pid: 60715; load averages: 0.06, 0.16, 0.18 up 2+15:22:41 15:52:30 | 83 processes: 83 sleeping | | Mem: 9204K Active, 5948K Inact, 11M Wired, 2624K Cache, 3446K Buf, 488K Free | Swap: 96M Total, 48M Used, 48M Free, 50% Inuse | | | PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND +------- I can't see any memory-related problems. By the way, my /usr is as follows: # df -k -i /usr Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on /dev/da0s1f 2956432 2096002 623916 77% 216596 497642 30% /usr Why don't you guys upgrade your systems to -stable? Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message