Date: Mon, 08 May 1995 15:51:59 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: Kai.Vorma@hut.fi Cc: John Cavanaugh <john@bang.rain.com>, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: patch for running out of swap space bug in 1.1.5.1? Message-ID: <199505082252.PAA00306@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 09 May 95 01:30:50 %2B0300." <199505082230.BAA21336@vinkku.hut.fi>
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>John Cavanaugh writes: > > I'm running 1.1.5.1 on a 486/66 with a small newsfeed and am running > > out of swap space every 5 days or so. I have heard rumors of there > > being a patch out somewhere to fix this problem but I didn't see anything > > when I went and looked around on cdrom.com. Is there a patch out there > > somewhere or should I give in and upgrade to 2.x? Thanks. > >FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 leaks memory if you don't have enough RAM. I had a 486 >with 4MB RAM (FreeBSD-1.1.5.1 + all relevant patches from ref and >mailing-lists) working as UUCP-server and it run out of swap every few >days (and crashed or had to be rebooted). We added 4MB more RAM about >8 weeks ago and it has now been up 55 days :-) Yes, there is a swap leak that will occur with (swap) paging. We don't have a 1.1.5 patch for it, however. It required rewrites of several routines and was too difficult to retrofit back into 1.1.5. -DG
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