From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 8 15:52:16 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id PAA25098 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 May 1995 15:52:16 -0700 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA25088 for ; Mon, 8 May 1995 15:52:11 -0700 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin.Root.COM [198.145.90.18]) by Root.COM (8.6.8/8.6.5) with ESMTP id PAA01308; Mon, 8 May 1995 15:55:05 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.11/8.6.5) with SMTP id PAA00306; Mon, 8 May 1995 15:52:01 -0700 Message-Id: <199505082252.PAA00306@corbin.Root.COM> To: Kai.Vorma@hut.fi cc: John Cavanaugh , questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: patch for running out of swap space bug in 1.1.5.1? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 09 May 95 01:30:50 +0300." <199505082230.BAA21336@vinkku.hut.fi> From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Mon, 08 May 1995 15:51:59 -0700 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >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