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To: Faried Nawaz <fn@pain.csrv.uidaho.edu>
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Subject: Re: [2.0R] news server memleak? 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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>did, and i could also switch between consoles), and i couldn't do anything
>other than ping it, net-wise.  does anyone know if there an mmap problem with
>inn and freebsd, or could something else be the problem?

   Yes, there were bugs that would cause the machine to hang, panic, or
corrupt your mmaped files. We *think* we've fixed all the bugs.

-DG

>one thing i forgot to mention in my earlier mail was that when i restarted
>news, i was still 3mb into swap.  could pstat/swapinfo be lying to me?

   3MB of swap is normal for a standard compliment of (system) processes, but
is abnormal when the shell and init are the only user processes. I think
you're seeing the swap leak.

-DG