Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 02:23:20 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: jd@slip129-37-223-142.ca.us.ibm.net (Joseph I. Davida) Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mem Leak ?? Message-ID: <199709190723.CAA01122@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <199709190511.WAA13160@slip129-37-223-142.ca.us.ibm.net> from "Joseph I. Davida" at "Sep 18, 97 10:11:20 pm"
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Joseph I. Davida said: > > Running FreeBSD Snap 3.0 > System is Pentium P5/200MHz, 64 Meg Ram, 512K Cache, > 96 Meg Swap space. > > X is up and running with the following X apps running: > tvtwm window manager > xbiff > xclock > icon manager > virtual desktop > Xsysinfo > vmstat > > When I try to run netscape (version 4.3b8), I get a message > from netscape that I am out of memory. SO I looked at what > vmstat was saying: > > procs memory page disks faults cpu > r b w avm fre flt re pi po fr sr s0 c0 w0 in sy cs us sy id > 1 0 0 4033532 21008 13 0 0 0 14 0 1 0 0 166 172 30 1 0 99 > 0 0 0 4029456 21008 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 113 76 9 0 0 100 > 0 0 0 4029812 21008 30 0 0 0 33 0 1 0 0 165 1529 48 3 1 96 > 0 0 0 4029812 21008 13 0 0 0 14 0 1 0 0 109 74 10 0 0 100 > 0 0 0 4029812 21008 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 179 372 55 2 1 97 > 0 0 0 4029812 21008 13 0 0 0 14 0 1 0 0 242 50055 96 16 40 44 > 0 0 0 4029812 21008 18 0 0 0 19 0 0 0 0 139 1467 37 3 1 96 > > FreeBSD's concept of free memory is orthogonal to what most people consider free memory to be. The only way to determine memory capacity on a FreeBSD box, is to consider paging rates and free swap space. John
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