From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jun 6 14:08:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA07217 for current-outgoing; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 14:08:59 -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 OAA07212 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 14:08:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-2.mail.demon.net (disperse.demon.co.uk [158.152.1.77]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with SMTP id OAA23362 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 14:08:43 -0700 Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([158.152.1.72]) by relay-2.mail.demon.net id ac19570; 6 Jun 96 20:05 +0100 Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa22490; 6 Jun 96 18:02 +0100 Received: (from fcurrent@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.7.5/8.6.12) id CAA11787; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 02:22:21 GMT Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 02:22:21 GMT Message-Id: <199606060222.CAA11787@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: michaelv@headcandy.com CC: Gary.Jennejohn@munich.netsurf.de, freebsd-current@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <199606052245.PAA01595@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> (michaelv@headcandy.com) Subject: Re: More on VM, swap leaks Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Now, in addition to this, I believe emacs installs by default with the > sticky bit set, which means it will try to keep swap pages allocated > for it, even when it isn't running. It does install with the sticky bit set, but I thought that modern Unices ignored it as they try to keep everything in swap for as long as possible. Someone mailed me and said that unsetting the sticky bit solved the problem for them. I tried it and it didn't help at all. 8-( > At least, that's the way I understand it. I'm not a veteran kernel > internals hacker, however... Me neither 8-) > Now, the SIGSEGV's might have something to do with bad memory or > cache. Or just running the clock too high for the memory or CPU. Or, > it could very possible be a bug in John's code. I'm sure he has a > good idea of what it could be, if it is, in fact, a bug. I agree. Let's see what the latest batch of VM changes will bring. Time to do a 'make world', I think. -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland | http://freefall.freebsd.org/~jraynard/ james@jraynard.demon.co.uk | jraynard@freebsd.org