From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 16 13:03:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA09607 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 16 Jun 1996 13:03:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA09602 for ; Sun, 16 Jun 1996 13:03:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id NAA21385 for ; Sun, 16 Jun 1996 13:03:18 -0700 Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-1) with ESMTP id QAA21682; Sun, 16 Jun 1996 16:19:41 +0100 (BST) To: Khetan Gajjar cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: Way to flush swap In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 16 Jun 1996 14:53:43 +0200." Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 16:19:39 +0100 Message-ID: <21680.834938379@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Khetan Gajjar wrote in message ID : > My swap fills up and doesn't seem to let go of its contents after I quit > out of applications. I've got 32mb of RAM and am running X. Do you quit out of X too? You run `netscape'. `xearth', `xdaliclock' and `xload', all of which do large numbers of bitmap operations and likely trigger a large memory usage situation in the server. (i.e. the memory leak bug). I'm running a -stable from earlier this month (June 2nd) and do NOT have this sort of problem... (BTW: Your nice little sed expression trimmed out a lot of info which could have been useful, like the %MEM, VSZ and RSS of the applications...) Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info