Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 22:05:19 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: mrpiatek@ece.ucsb.edu Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 memory leak with new FreeBSD kernel Message-ID: <39326B0F.EA81A31C@newsguy.com> References: <20000529010658.B84488@epic.resnet.ucsb.edu>
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Mike Piatek wrote: > > I installed FreeBSD 4.0 when it was released and have not had any problems until > I did a make world yesterday. Everything seemed to install okay, except today > when I checked process memory usage, XFree86 4.0 had eaten up over 100mb of > memory overnight. I thought this might have something to do with using XFree86 4.0, > so I downgraded to version 3.3.6 and still have the same problem (memory is > leaking slower, however). I assume that this has something to do with the FreeBSD > kernel not deallocating when it is supposed to. Any ideas? Forgive me for asking, but what evidence do you have of memory leak? A lot of people make such claims out of plain ignorance of what the memory stats on top(1) mean. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@another.bsdconspiracy.org "Sentience hurts." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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