From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Nov 19 13:45:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from implode.root.com (root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4CD815767 for ; Fri, 19 Nov 1999 13:43:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dg@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA01882; Fri, 19 Nov 1999 13:43:25 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199911192143.NAA01882@implode.root.com> To: Phillip Salzman Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Memory leaks? In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 19 Nov 1999 10:37:11 CST." From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 13:43:25 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I'm having a very strange problem. We are attempting to rsync var/mail >from a BSD/OS 3.1 machine, to its replacement, a FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE >box. > >This uses a lot of memory, in theory, but it should release it when >completed. I'd think :) > >--------------------- > Before >--------------------- >CPU states: 1.2% user, 0.0% nice, 0.8% system, 0.4% interrupt, 97.7% >idle >Mem: 7988K Active, 6796K Inact, 14M Wired, 8283K Buf, 222M Free >Swap: 256M Total, 256M Free > >--------------------- > After >--------------------- >CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 100% >idle >Mem: 10M Active, 214M Inact, 14M Wired, 10M Cache, 8337K Buf, 896K Free >Swap: 256M Total, 256M Free > >Please note that rsync died on an out of memory error. rsync dieing and the above memory numbers are unrelated. The above is telling you that rsync read through a lot of files (perhaps to calculate checksums?) and that they are now cached in memory. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message