Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 09:12:17 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Joakim Henriksson <murduth@rmstar.campus.luth.se>, Jason Young <doogie@forbidden-donut.anet-stl.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Memory report problems. Message-ID: <19980217091217.51954@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199802161736.SAA08633@rmstar.campus.luth.se>; from Joakim Henriksson on Mon, Feb 16, 1998 at 06:36:17PM %2B0100 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980216110918.27784O-100000@forbidden-donut.anet-stl.com> <199802161736.SAA08633@rmstar.campus.luth.se>
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On Mon, 16 February 1998 at 18:36:17 +0100, Joakim Henriksson wrote: >>> 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. This sentence seems to contradict itself. If your window manager starts using 30 MB, it would seem to be accounting for a large proportion of the swap by itself. What happens if you stop every process, just before shutting down? How much swap is left in use? Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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