Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 11:13:25 -0600 (CST) From: Jason Young <doogie@forbidden-donut.anet-stl.com> To: Joakim Henriksson <murduth@rmstar.campus.luth.se> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Memory report problems. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980216110918.27784O-100000@forbidden-donut.anet-stl.com> In-Reply-To: <199802161632.RAA08239@rmstar.campus.luth.se>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Joakim Henriksson wrote: > There seems to be some problems with the memory reporting systems. My memory > is eaten by something, and have to logout every other day to clear the memory. > And the bad part is that none of the processes i have started seems to grow > (well ok except for netscape and i restart it at/or around 30Mb so that is not > a problem). When the system is started i have around 10Mb paged out. without > starting any more programs and just using the one i have started i soon get up > to 100+ Mb swap. Something is leaking like titanic here. Oh, this problem is > alsa present in STABLE. Restarting afterstep usually returns about 30Mb so my > guess is that its XF86_S3 thats leaking but it doesnt grow beyond 15-16Mb > reported usage. It is normal for FreeBSD to page out a lot of (relatively) useless stuff to gain disk caching space. It's not a leak. Jason Young ANET Chief Network Engineer "Bother," said Pooh, "Eeyore, ready two photon torpedoes and lock phasers on the Heffalump, Piglet, meet me in transporter room three." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQB1AwUBNOhzt6InE6ybC66VAQF7+wL/f2mWqUKigq01RFfGDV28KigBmlALsP00 uXa0xp2/vBtAbrvqFHmbGYQhzer5eUozYmivfISmFFDXVGZWxCINKl1StMSqBrHX deaYfd6IziN2CPbQuJJYCnlD+2Ns1CPL =7MI0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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