Date: Wed, 07 May 1997 13:59:08 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Kachun Lee <kachun@zippo.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern malloc leak in 2.2X ? Message-ID: <199705072059.NAA24742@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 May 1997 10:10:01 -0000." <1.5.4.32.19970507101001.006db218@dopey.pathlink.com>
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>After upgrading to 2.2 (2.2beta thru 2.2-releng-970422), some of our systems >would panic with 'kmem_map too small' every ~30 hours - clockwork. Per >suggestion of Mr. Greenman, I increased VM_KMEM_SIZE from 32M to 48M. The >systems still panic, but now about every 2.5days. That leads me to believe >there may be a memory leak in 2.2X. Those systems are all heavy NFS clients >over SMC 100 netcards. > >I wouldn't mind spend sometime to identify the problem, if someone could >point me to the right direction. The last time I did any UNIX kernel work >was back with UNIX sysIII.5. Any suggestion would be greatly appreicated. After two days, do a "vmstat -m"; this gives a break-down of memory allocations in the kernel and should provide a clue to the problem. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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