Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 19:48:59 -0300 (EST) From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@mailhost.coppe.ufrj.br> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: bin/3251: xsysinfo stops refreshing and wastes CPU Message-ID: <199704102248.TAA13929@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> Resent-Message-ID: <199704102250.PAA05664@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 3251 >Category: bin >Synopsis: xsysinfo stops refreshing and wastes CPU >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu Apr 10 15:50:01 PDT 1997 >Last-Modified: >Originator: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis >Organization: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro >Release: FreeBSD 2.1.7-RELEASE i386 >Environment: FreeBSD 2.1.7, XFree86 3.2 >Description: xsysinfo seens to lose control under high load condition. >How-To-Repeat: - Create a program to eat LOTs of memory, effectively trashing the whole system. This program must disable all limits on memory alocation and RSS size. If necessary, I have such a program. - Start X and xsysinfo - Run the memory eater, eat all RAM your machine have, forcing everything to go to swap. - xsysinfo stops refreshing, and consumes 100% of your CPU. >Fix: I did not look at the sources, but I think it's a problem with linked lists acessing /dev/kmem. NetBSD's identd had this problem. >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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