Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 15:41:44 -0500 (EST) From: danh@wzrd.com (Dan Harnett) To: up@3.am Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why I have to reboot at times; was:RE: uptimes, Woo Hoo Message-ID: <20000105204144.EAAF35D019@mail.wzrd.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001051448030.22323-100000@richard2.pil.net> from "up@3.am" at "Jan 5, 2000 2:56:16 pm"
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Hello,
> ok, on the pretense of steering this thread back to topic, I could use
> some advice on the following problems I've been seeing with 3.2-RELEASE:
>
> there appears to be some sort of memory leak that I can't track down to a
> specific process (I have 256MB on this box):
>
> Mem: 87M Active, 129M Inact, 25M Wired, 6332K Cache, 8343K Buf, 4196K Free
^^^^^^^^^^ This is what is important.
Inactive memory is free but cached for quicker reuse.
A better reference on this is:
http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/internals-vm.html
> Swap: 517M Total, 517M Free
>
> After a reboot, this will have well over 100MB free, and gradually eat all
> but a few MB of it, but rarely (if ever) touch swap. I've done top, ps
> amx, and I don't see anything particularly huge. I also tried a virgin ps
> (just in case I'd been hacked), and seen no difference.
>
> *Part* of the problem appears to be that interactive shell processes don't
> die if I do a CTL-C, CTL-D or CTL-Z. they stop and remain in memory until
> I either kill the process, or the shell. I dunno if this is normal FBSD
> behavior, just that it doesn't happen in Solaris or Linux.
Dan Harnett
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