Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 02:33:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Network Coordinator <nc@ai.net> To: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Memory leak somewhere? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950623023051.16374A-100000@aries.ai.net> In-Reply-To: <199506230630.CAA09279@crh.cl.msu.edu>
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I have noticed this too, and the machine I have noticed it on is not running X at all. [It also has 32 megs of ram]. According to the proc file system I should be using somewhere around 14 megs of ram, and the swap space can sometimes be up to 10 and 12 megabytes. [sometimes pine is credited with using 7.0% of system ram! I have noticed that as a pine session is open it progressively takes up more memory. -Jerry. > 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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