From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 14 18:11:18 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA20656 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 14 Apr 1995 18:11:18 -0700 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA20650 for ; Fri, 14 Apr 1995 18:11:16 -0700 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin.Root.COM [198.145.90.18]) by Root.COM (8.6.8/8.6.5) with ESMTP id SAA18162; Fri, 14 Apr 1995 18:11:13 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.11/8.6.5) with SMTP id SAA00491; Fri, 14 Apr 1995 18:11:13 -0700 Message-Id: <199504150111.SAA00491@corbin.Root.COM> To: Faried Nawaz cc: questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: [2.0R] news server memleak? In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 14 Apr 95 05:19:38 PDT." <199504141219.FAA26956@crow.csrv.uidaho.edu> From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Fri, 14 Apr 1995 18:11:12 -0700 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >i've noticed a strange thing, though, and it puzzles me. yesterday (18 day >uptime) i noticed that the machine was living in swap. it had innd running >(ps said vsz was around 7.5mb), and had a few in.nnrpds running (ps said >vsz for each was just over a meg). i could not see how it all added up >to > 20mb, but i was 10mb into swap. > >last night (a few hours ago, actually), i shutdown innd, kill -15'd the >few running nnrpds, and...found myself 3mb into swap. i ran a few >commands, and i produce their output below. i'm not quite sure how to >interpret the results (or even if i was using the right commands to >pinpoint the problem), though. help? There is a swap leak in 1.1.5 and 2.0R that was fixed a few months ago. The solution is complex and will require that you upgrade to either -current or 2.1 when it becomes available in order to get the fix. -DG