Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 02:30:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Memory leak somewhere? Message-ID: <199506230630.CAA09279@crh.cl.msu.edu>
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I've noticed lately that my S3 X server grows continuously (as does my swap
utilization) as time goes by, and never shrinks. Currently my X server process
looks like so:
root 252 0.0 30.9 11632 9440 ?? I 10:39PM 0:21.43 X :0 (XF86_S3)
and has only been running a few hours. I've talked with the author of the
Server and he was astonished when I told him I've seen it as high as 15M of
ram. He claims he never see's this, however he's running it under Linux. He
suggests perhaps there is a problem with something somewhere in FreeBSD. This
behaviour seems to be new with the 0412-SNAP, although I dont have any
proof of this. This is crazy, I have a 32mb machine, and its performing like
a dog because of this sort of memory usage (!) :(. On a 16mb machine, if you
run any significant apps you go to swaphell because of the memory usage here.
Could this be a leak in the kernel malloc, or mmap code or some such?
-Crh
Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu
http://rs560.msu.edu/~henrich/
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