From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 8 17:11:24 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id RAA26329 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 May 1995 17:11:24 -0700 Received: from bang.rain.com (bang.rain.com [199.2.100.61]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA26316 for ; Mon, 8 May 1995 17:11:21 -0700 Received: (from john@localhost) by bang.rain.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id RAA16112; Mon, 8 May 1995 17:10:30 -0700 From: John Cavanaugh Message-Id: <199505090010.RAA16112@bang.rain.com> Subject: Re: patch for running out of swap space bug in 1.1.5.1? To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Mon, 8 May 1995 17:10:27 -0700 (PDT) Cc: Kai.Vorma@hut.fi, questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199505082252.PAA00306@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at May 8, 95 03:51:59 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1194 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. That's kind of what I figured. Oh well. Know of a quick and painless way to upgrade a 1.1.5.1 box to 2.x when the said box is your gateway to the Internet? ;-) -- John Cavanaugh "There can be only one."