Date: Mon, 8 May 1995 17:10:27 -0700 (PDT) From: John Cavanaugh <john@bang.rain.com> To: davidg@Root.COM Cc: Kai.Vorma@hut.fi, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: patch for running out of swap space bug in 1.1.5.1? Message-ID: <199505090010.RAA16112@bang.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <199505082252.PAA00306@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at May 8, 95 03:51:59 pm
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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. 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." <john@bang.rain.com>
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