From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 29 6: 4:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21EC937BBFA for ; Mon, 29 May 2000 06:04:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p21-dn02kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.86]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN/) with ESMTP id WAA17732; Mon, 29 May 2000 22:04:30 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <39326B0F.EA81A31C@newsguy.com> Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 22:05:19 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mrpiatek@ece.ucsb.edu Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 memory leak with new FreeBSD kernel References: <20000529010658.B84488@epic.resnet.ucsb.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Piatek wrote: > > I installed FreeBSD 4.0 when it was released and have not had any problems until > I did a make world yesterday. Everything seemed to install okay, except today > when I checked process memory usage, XFree86 4.0 had eaten up over 100mb of > memory overnight. I thought this might have something to do with using XFree86 4.0, > so I downgraded to version 3.3.6 and still have the same problem (memory is > leaking slower, however). I assume that this has something to do with the FreeBSD > kernel not deallocating when it is supposed to. Any ideas? Forgive me for asking, but what evidence do you have of memory leak? A lot of people make such claims out of plain ignorance of what the memory stats on top(1) mean. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@another.bsdconspiracy.org "Sentience hurts." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message