From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 10 4:34:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sasi.com (samar.sasi.com.56.164.164.in-addr.arpa [164.164.56.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 899CA37BD3B; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 04:34:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gbnaidu@sasi.com) Received: from samar (sasi.com [164.164.56.2]) by sasi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA18063; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 17:05:37 +0530 (IST) Received: from pcd75.sasi.com ([10.0.16.75]) by sasi.com; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 17:05:36 +0000 (IST) Received: from localhost (gbnaidu@localhost) by pcd75.sasi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA01794; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 17:05:26 +0530 Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 17:05:26 +0530 (IST) From: "G.B.Naidu" To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, gbnaidu@sasi.com Subject: Memory leakage... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I have been getting this error message on my FreeBSD 3.3 system: swap_pager: Out of Swap space. After digging a little bit, we found that there is a lot of memory leakage happening. This is how we went about finding: ps -aux for the process showed that vsz column was increasing very fast. But the rss column was almost stable( was not changing much). pstat -S also showed drastic fall in available swap space. My question is what could be the reason for this drastic increase in vsz column of ps -aux output? Is it because of unfreed malloced memory? Why rss is stable? Somebody could help me when will the vsz(virtual size) increases? thanks a lot --gb -- Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message