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Date:      Fri, 14 Apr 1995 18:11:12 -0700
From:      David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
To:        Faried Nawaz <fn@pain.csrv.uidaho.edu>
Cc:        questions@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: [2.0R] news server memleak? 
Message-ID:  <199504150111.SAA00491@corbin.Root.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 14 Apr 95 05:19:38 PDT." <199504141219.FAA26956@crow.csrv.uidaho.edu> 

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>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



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