Date: Mon, 08 May 1995 19:36:58 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: John Cavanaugh <john@bang.rain.com> Cc: Kai.Vorma@hut.fi, questions@FreeBSD.org, batie@agora.rdrop.com Subject: Re: patch for running out of swap space bug in 1.1.5.1? Message-ID: <199505090236.TAA01768@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 08 May 95 17:10:27 PDT." <199505090010.RAA16112@bang.rain.com>
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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? ;-) Bring your machine over to Alan's some (weekend) night, and perhaps we can upgrade it there. -DG
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