From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 16 14:43:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA23313 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 14:43:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA23213 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 14:42:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA26833; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 09:12:17 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id JAA05182; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 09:12:17 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980217091217.51954@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 09:12:17 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Joakim Henriksson , Jason Young Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Memory report problems. References: <199802161736.SAA08633@rmstar.campus.luth.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <199802161736.SAA08633@rmstar.campus.luth.se>; from Joakim Henriksson on Mon, Feb 16, 1998 at 06:36:17PM +0100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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