Date: Mon, 8 May 1995 17:06:40 -0700 (PDT) From: John Cavanaugh <john@bang.rain.com> To: Kai.Vorma@hut.fi Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: patch for running out of swap space bug in 1.1.5.1? Message-ID: <199505090006.RAA15698@bang.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <199505082230.BAA21336@vinkku.hut.fi> from "Kai Vorma" at May 9, 95 01:30:50 am
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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 :-) Yeah, I have 8Mb in the box right now. The problem was that when I initially setup the machine, I only gave it 8Mb of swap (oops). But, with that 8Mb of ram and 8Mb of swap, I still run out swap and need to reboot every 5 days. -- John Cavanaugh "There can be only one." <john@bang.rain.com>
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