From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 19 10: 0:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles504.castles.com [208.214.165.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEBBD14DA5 for ; Wed, 19 May 1999 10:00:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA03264; Wed, 19 May 1999 09:56:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199905191656.JAA03264@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Greg Quinlan" Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" , "Ilya Balashov" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Memory leaks & kernel panic/reboot & ahc reboot In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 19 May 1999 10:37:19 BST." <002401bea1db$30df4180$380051c2@greg.qmpgmc.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 09:56:04 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > That is it!!!!!! > > Here is output 'top' after 1 day. This could easily cause a panic/reboot > once swap has run-out and may also be related to the ahc reboot problem, and > kernel panic reboots I have been experiencing. You totally fail to understand how memory is managed by FreeBSD, and are thus grasping at imaginary problems. Don't do this. The Active/Inactive/Wired/Cache/Buf/Free statistics refer to the disposition of physical memory. They are unrelated to swap usage, do not interact with the 'ahc' driver, and are unlikely to cause anything to panic. Ask yourself this - if there is a fatal memory management problem in FreeBSD, why isn't everyone else seeing it? How many FreeBSD users are there? How many of you are there? Look somewhere else for your problem. Maybe your CPU fan has stopped again; get someone to shine a light in your ear. 8) -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message