From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 16 15:08:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA29752 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 15:08:32 -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 PAA29725 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 15:08:19 -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 JAA26873; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 09:38:05 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id JAA05332; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 09:38:05 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980217093804.27198@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 09:38:04 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Joakim Henriksson Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Memory report problems. References: <19980217091217.51954@freebie.lemis.com> <199802162255.XAA10874@rmstar.campus.luth.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <199802162255.XAA10874@rmstar.campus.luth.se>; from Joakim Henriksson on Mon, Feb 16, 1998 at 11:55:27PM +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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message