From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Dec 26 3:40:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCE9037B401 for ; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 03:40:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from wwweasel.geeksrus.net (wwweasel.geeksrus.net [64.8.210.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 678D943ED4 for ; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 03:40:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alane@wwweasel.geeksrus.net) Received: from wwweasel.geeksrus.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wwweasel.geeksrus.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBQBddEf038760 for ; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 06:39:39 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from alane@wwweasel.geeksrus.net) Received: (from alane@localhost) by wwweasel.geeksrus.net (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gBQBdcAR038749 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 06:39:38 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from alane) Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 06:39:36 -0500 From: AlanE To: FreeBSD Stable List Subject: memory leak in top? Message-ID: <20021226113935.GA37422@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> Reply-To: alane@geeksrus.net Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Stable List Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-message-flag: Every program expands until it can send mail. Except Exchange Server. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I was watching a "top" run, and noticed that, each tick, top itself increased its virtual image size. Its RSS stayed constant, but it would increase its virtual size by ~16K/tick. This makes me think, malloc but no free. -- AlanE (Alan Eldridge), who likes fixing weird distributed systems bugs. Unix/C(++) IT Pro for 20 yrs, desperately seeking employment in NYC. (http://wwweasel.geeksrus.net/~alane/resume.rtf) KDE, KDE-FreeBSD Teams (http://www.kde.org, http://freebsd.kde.org/) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message