From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 16 09:36:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA23509 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 09:36:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rmstar.campus.luth.se (rmstar.campus.luth.se [130.240.197.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA23460 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 09:36:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from murduth@rmstar.campus.luth.se) Received: from rmstar.campus.luth.se (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rmstar.campus.luth.se (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA08633; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 18:36:18 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <199802161736.SAA08633@rmstar.campus.luth.se> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: Jason Young cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Memory report problems. In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 16 Feb 1998 11:13:25 CST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 18:36:17 +0100 From: Joakim Henriksson Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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. But when a window manager rises consistently to 30Mb Virtual and not ps -auxwwwfm reports more than 900k, there is a leak (The leak is user program related and not the problem) and a reporting problem. I could live my swap consistently going up to a certain point (i only have so many processes), but when it rises and rises and processes starts to die of I get a bit peeved. It would make it a wee bit easier to find the problem if i could get accurate info about the processes but when ps doesnt give that i dont know what else to do :/ -- regards/ Joakim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message