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Date:      Thu, 19 Feb 1998 12:58:01 +0500
From:      Aleksey Zvyagin <zal@rest.ru>
To:        zal@rest.ru, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Help! Memory leak in FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE?! 
Message-ID:  <34EBE609.5B32E7C2@rest.ru>

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Hello, All!

I need your help! Sorry me if my English will be bad. ;-)

I had installed FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE on the mainboard ACORP 5VX32
(chipset INtel 430VX, DIMM 64M, CPU is AMD K5-133) ...
and have the problem.
I noted that FreeBSD is to be hanged after 1-2 days.
This machine are working in idle rate.
I begin to watch for memory. I was runing the script which was logging
the top's output and ps's output.
And what i noted:

Memory in 1:59:00 (1:59am)
-----------------
last pid:  4764;  load averages:  0.00,  0.00,  0.00    01:59:00
27 processes:  1 running, 26 sleeping

Mem: 6788K Active, 2840K Inact, 9164K Wired, 4877K Buf, 43M Free
          ^^^^^^ Memory is OK
Swap: 120M Total, 64K Used, 120M Free
-----------------

Memory in 2:00:00
-----------------
last pid:  4781;  load averages:  0.00,  0.00,  0.00    02:00:00
31 processes:  3 running, 28 sleeping

Mem: 7136K Active, 2840K Inact, 9308K Wired, 4926K Buf, 43M Free
Swap: 120M Total, 64K Used, 120M Free
-----------------

Memory in 2:01:00
------------------
last pid:  4841;  load averages:  0.00,  0.00,  0.00    02:01:00
37 processes:  1 running, 36 sleeping

Mem: 13M Active, 3156K Inact, 12M Wired, 7158K Buf, 33M Free
          ^^^^
Swap: 120M Total, 64K Used, 120M Free
-------------------
Memory in this time has grown through 13 Mb.
In this time /etc/daily was working...

The memory after 6 hours stays on 13-16 Mb!
Memory in 11:23
-------------------
last pid:  8643;  load averages:  0.03,  0.01,  0.00    11:23:00
27 processes:  1 running, 26 sleeping

Mem: 17M Active, 3180K Inact, 13M Wired, 7667K Buf, 29M Free
Swap: 120M Total, 64K Used, 120M Free
-------------------

I did not find a processes those were using a more memory!
I made the conclusion that a memory leak is in kernel!
I tried with other mainboard (Chipset Inte 437VX, SIMM 16 Mb) this hard
with FreeBSD but memory was stable on 7-8Mb against the 17M at 11:23
(see above)

Help me! Did anyone know what is problem?!
Please, to answer to my e-mail box: zal@rest.ru

Future thanks!

--
Best regards,

Aleksey Zvyagin, Ekaterinburg city, Ural region, Russia.
E-mail: zal@rest.ru; Mirabilis UIN: 1381198;
ntalk compatible: zal@zal.rest.ru; http://www.rest.ru/~zal/



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