Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 17:55:28 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> To: Q <qdolan@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Req: Help tracking possible kernel memory leak. - possibly filesystem related Message-ID: <20060802075528.GB713@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <7F8170AC-5DFC-4C7B-BF2A-916AB7F73CC6@gmail.com> References: <F8BD57AF-976A-4DDE-BF9D-9A9F1B0C530C@gmail.com> <7F8170AC-5DFC-4C7B-BF2A-916AB7F73CC6@gmail.com>
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--WYTEVAkct0FjGQmd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2006-Aug-02 15:22:26 +1000, Q wrote: >I have made some more progress on identifying this problem. If I drop =20 >to single user mode, and then unmount the volume that houses the =20 >database and the raw data, the accumulated memory is released. When =20 >it did this earlier it dropping from 870M 'active' to 7M =20 >'active' (according to top), just by unmounting the filesystem. I'm sure that's not supposed to happen... You might like to capture the output from 'sysctl vm' and see how it changes over time. If you can identify what particular variable is leaking, it might help locate the problem. --=20 Peter Jeremy --WYTEVAkct0FjGQmd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFE0Fpw/opHv/APuIcRAsNkAJ9j7Qwj8kBoL0Tn9MvS+490gJfgjgCfeJVS RzzUJzPqfs0j1HU0tE4KtoE= =SATk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --WYTEVAkct0FjGQmd--
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