Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:41:17 +0200 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Mark Lastdrager <mark.lastdrager@pine.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rpc.lockd leaking memory on 6.3 Message-ID: <47FD29ED.60001@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <47FD18B9.8060305@pine.nl> References: <47FD18B9.8060305@pine.nl>
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Mark Lastdrager wrote: > Hi, > > Recently we updated our main NFS server to FreeBSD 6.3. This machine > serves about 10 netboot clients all running FreeBSD 6.2. Since the > upgrade we are having some issues with locking. We tried to avoid > running the lockd daemons at all but most software on the netboot > clients (Apache, Postfix) refuses to run without it. > > On the 6.3 server rpc.lockd leaks memory, somewhat less than 1 meg per > hour. This means that every few days we need to restart the daemon. This > is quite annoying because we need to stop/start rpc.lockd on both the > server and the clients in a controlled fashion. In most cases also the > daemons using locking need to be restarted. > > Is this a known issue? I could not find a PR for it. Maybe a workaround? I havent seen a report of this behaviour. > I found some recent posts on the -current list about a complete rewrite > of the locking mechanism, will this be ported to 6-STABLE in the future? Almost certainly not. Kris
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