Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 23:52:26 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: eivind@yes.no (Eivind Eklund), alk@pobox.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: something is leaking Message-ID: <199810040652.XAA02349@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 04 Oct 1998 04:09:15 -0000." <199810040409.VAA24864@usr06.primenet.com>
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> > > swap_pager: suggest more swap space: 124 MB > > > > > > Another one. First rpc.statd grows to 126MB, now I come home from > > > dinner and find that netscape 4.06 is at 89MB. Something is leaking, > > > and it is something deep: rpc.statd is elf, and netscape 4.06 is > > > a.out, so they have no shared libs in common. > > > > It is 'normal' that netscape grow to that size. I see it routinely. > > Something also touch all of Netscapes memory in some cases (which is > > really hatefull, as it makes my box swap-trash). > > > > I'm not sure this is a bug or not; John Dyson was looking at it to > > determine what happened just as he quit FreeBSD (and wasn't sure > > whether it was a FreeBSD bug, either, though he said he suspected it > > might be.) > > The shared memory regions are not being "owned" and reference > counted correctly. > > This is either a bug in the X Server, or in netscape. Very few kernels are configured to have that much shared memory; I don't think this has anything to do with it. I've observed Netscape's interesting growth patterns on systems without SYSVSHM devined (ie. no MIT-SHM extension available). Also, I don't expect that rpc.statd talks to the X server. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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