From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 14 17:29:40 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E61B016A405 for ; Mon, 14 May 2007 17:29:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A599E13C458 for ; Mon, 14 May 2007 17:29:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@hub.org) Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.182]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B95B85C938; Mon, 14 May 2007 14:29:38 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.182]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 26326-02; Mon, 14 May 2007 14:29:37 -0300 (ADT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-89-241-126.eastlink.ca [24.89.241.126]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C5BC85C91A; Mon, 14 May 2007 14:29:37 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DD336130C; Mon, 14 May 2007 14:29:39 -0300 (ADT) Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 14:29:38 -0300 From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Ulrich Spoerlein , stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7ad7ddd90705141007k77d7c335u3de54363a0eb8eaa@mail.gmail.com> References: <7ad7ddd90705141007k77d7c335u3de54363a0eb8eaa@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.8 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Cc: Subject: Re: Known memory leak in 6-STABLE from April 1st? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 17:29:41 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - --On Monday, May 14, 2007 19:07:24 +0200 Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: > Hi all, > > I observed something funny with our new cyrus/postfix/amavis > installations running on 6.2-STABLE checked out on April 1st (no, I'm > not joking). > > They are running symon to grab performance data and I saw the memory > total becoming less and less. Now I know that adding up > free+active+inactive != total ram BUT *all* other FreeBSD machines we > are running show a more or less constant sum. > > I uploaded two pictures showing the trend here (They are i386 machines > with 4GB RAM, FreeBSD reports 3.3GB as usable): > > http://coyote.dnsalias.net/ms1-day.png > http://coyote.dnsalias.net/ms1-week.png > > Now after doing some heavy IMAP testing (cyrus reconstruct of big > maildirs) the system froze to a complete halt. Stupid me already > rebooted the machine, tomorrow I'll try to break into DDB when it > happens again. I also started recording top(1) memory output and > sysctl vm.zone output. > > The main questions is: Were there any known memory leaks at the start > of April? Any patches I should blindly try before spending several > days on debugging this? Hrmmm ... long shot here, but what does: sysctl kern.ipc.numopensockets show over that period of time ... just wondering if we are somehow related on problems here, just different symptoms ... - ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGSJyC4QvfyHIvDvMRAmDJAJwMe9ihH/5ITea58y1Qivilfju2KACgidMf Aq68KICMse94bckc2UL/7Sw= =TUSW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----