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Date:      Tue, 17 Feb 1998 09:38:04 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Joakim Henriksson <murduth@rmstar.campus.luth.se>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Memory report problems.
Message-ID:  <19980217093804.27198@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199802162255.XAA10874@rmstar.campus.luth.se>; from Joakim Henriksson on Mon, Feb 16, 1998 at 11:55:27PM %2B0100
References:  <19980217091217.51954@freebie.lemis.com> <199802162255.XAA10874@rmstar.campus.luth.se>

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On Mon, 16 February 1998 at 23:55:27 +0100, Joakim Henriksson wrote:
>>> 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.
>
> Yeah, sorry if i didnt write it more clearly. What i mean is that everything
> that reports memory says its small (1-2Mb). But when i kill it i regain 30Mb
> swap.
>
>> What happens if you stop every process, just before shutting down?
>> How much swap is left in use?
>
> No change.

Sorry, what does that mean?  Can you quantify how much you have left
after stopping all user processes?

Greg

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