From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jan 5 12:41:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wzrd.com (mail.wzrd.com [206.99.165.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D24714C05 for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 12:41:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from danh@wzrd.com) Received: by mail.wzrd.com (Postfix, from userid 91) id EAAF35D019; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 15:41:44 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: Why I have to reboot at times; was:RE: uptimes, Woo Hoo In-Reply-To: from "up@3.am" at "Jan 5, 2000 2:56:16 pm" To: up@3.am Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 15:41:44 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1185 Message-Id: <20000105204144.EAAF35D019@mail.wzrd.com> From: danh@wzrd.com (Dan Harnett) Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message