From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 19 10:37:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from amanda.qmpgmc.ac.uk (amanda.qmpgmc.ac.uk [194.81.5.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0264514D2B for ; Wed, 19 May 1999 10:37:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from greg@qmpgmc.ac.uk) Received: from greg (gquinlan [194.81.0.56]) by amanda.qmpgmc.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA76768; Wed, 19 May 1999 18:37:29 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <00ea01bea21e$3bad8a20$380051c2@greg.qmpgmc.ac.uk> Reply-To: "Greg Quinlan" From: "Greg Quinlan" To: "Mike Smith" Cc: Subject: Re: Memory leaks & kernel panic/reboot & ahc reboot Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 18:37:14 +0100 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To: Greg Quinlan Cc: Daniel C. Sobral ; Ilya Balashov ; 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