Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 18:37:14 +0100 From: "Greg Quinlan" <greg@qmpgmc.ac.uk> To: "Mike Smith" <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Memory leaks & kernel panic/reboot & ahc reboot Message-ID: <00ea01bea21e$3bad8a20$380051c2@greg.qmpgmc.ac.uk>
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Previously Mike Smith wrote: >The Active/Inactive/Wired/Cache/Buf/Free statistics refer to the >disposition of physical memory. They are unrelated to swap usage..... Physical memory unrelated to swap.... that's a new one! Do you get many laughs? Yes! I remember you, you're the one with so much time on his hands you play 'bounce' with TCP. >Look somewhere else for your problem. Maybe your CPU fan has stopped >again; get someone to shine a light in your ear. Person insults now... Gauche aren't we? Any other problems you do not want people to talk about? >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? How many people have EXACTLY my hardware config', kernel config', and services....hmmmm none! Greg -----Original Message----- From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Greg Quinlan <greg@qmpgmc.ac.uk> Cc: Daniel C. Sobral <dcs@newsguy.com>; Ilya Balashov <tsw@inec.ru>; freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: 19 May 1999 17:58 Subject: Re: Memory leaks & kernel panic/reboot & ahc reboot >> 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
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