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To: sos@FreeBSD.ORG
cc: grog@lemis.de, FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Swap leak in -current? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 03 Jan 1997 15:20:32 +0100."
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Date: Fri, 03 Jan 1997 16:29:36 +0100
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.dk.tfs.com>
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In message <199701031420.PAA07022@deepcore.cybercity.dk>, sos@FreeBSD.ORG write
s:
>In reply to grog@lemis.de who wrote:
>> I've just failed a 'make world' for the second time after running out
>> of swap space.  I don't understand why: it looks like the make process
>> is using up swap at a ridiculous rate.  Here's the scenario:  Pentium
>> 133 with 64 MB of memory, a hungry X server using about a third of
>> this, two swap spaces with a total of 150 MB.
>
>WoW! I just posted a message on cvs checkout dying the same horrible
>death (actually it is co that dies)...
>Anybody played with the malloc code resently, it seems free fails :(...

It's more likely John Dysons latest VM change...

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