From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 21 20:41:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA10220 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 20:41:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA10194 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 20:40:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA05916; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 20:40:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 20:40:30 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Frank Mayhar cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Memory leak in memfs? In-Reply-To: <199801200509.VAA09628@exit.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Frank Mayhar wrote: > I note my mount_mfs has several times seemed to grow without bound, viz: > > 1521 root 10 0 98780K 2016K mfsidl 0:17 0.00% 0.00% mount_mfs > > But the /tmp that it mounts is using less than a meg: > > [202]~ >df /tmp > Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > mfs:1521 95359 890 86841 1% /tmp > > This is after an uptime of around 5 1/2 days. Is there a leak in > mount_mfs? Or am I doing something wrong? What does your mount_mfs command line look like? And how much memory does your system have? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major