Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 09:29:03 +0100 From: Erik Norgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org> To: Robert Leftwich <freebsd@rtl.fmailbox.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Memory leak? Message-ID: <43F0434F.2000703@locolomo.org> In-Reply-To: <1139792505.30118.254198744@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1139792505.30118.254198744@webmail.messagingengine.com>
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Robert Leftwich wrote: > After running some number crunching for the last twelve hours I noticed > my box starting to use swap. Given that it has 4gb in it (of which 3gb > is available, see my other email for that issue) and I know that the app > never uses more than around 1gb I was surprised. Looking at the numbers > from top I was even more surprised, there seems to be a significant > chunk of memory unaccounted for (from memory when I checked after a > couple of hours the inactive memory was around 1300M with Free in the > 400M range, everything basically totalling to around the 3gb mark as > expected). The app is driven by a script and is only running for around > 1/2 hr per dataset after which it shuts down and restarts on a new > dataset, so all memory should be freed up/made inactive after each > restart, no? > > Mem: 274M Active, 227M Inact, 263M Wired, 95M Cache, 214M Buf, 4536K > Free > Swap: 4068M Total, 707M Used, 3361M Free, 17% Inuse > > real memory = 3221159936 (3071 MB) > avail memory = 3106529280 (2962 MB) > > What's the best way to track down more information as to the cause of > this problem? Do you run other applications also? There was a discussion on CURRENT@ some weeks ago about a memory leak that turned out to be firefox with some extensions, updates are available now. Cheers, Erik
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