From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 16 02:28:34 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 550071065674 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2008 02:28:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from james.cook@utoronto.ca) Received: from outbound-mail-196.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-196.bluehost.com [67.222.39.56]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 122A88FC0A for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2008 02:28:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from james.cook@utoronto.ca) Received: (qmail 31048 invoked by uid 0); 16 Jun 2008 01:02:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box309.bluehost.com) (69.89.31.109) by backupproxy1.bluehost.com with SMTP; 16 Jun 2008 01:02:03 -0000 Received: from adsl-75-36-219-211.dsl.pltn13.sbcglobal.net ([75.36.219.211] helo=glider) by box309.bluehost.com with smtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1K842Y-0002o5-Le; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:01:51 -0600 Received: by glider (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:01:47 -0700 Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:01:47 -0700 From: James Cook To: Tsu-Fan Cheng Message-ID: <20080616020147.GA2810@glider.gateway.2wire.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-user: ::::75.36.219.211:box309.bluehost.com:::::: DomainKey-Status: no signature Cc: james.cook@utoronto.ca, FreeBSD Subject: Re: amule eats up my swap!! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 02:28:34 -0000 On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 10:11:02AM -0400, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: > Hi all, > I guess this is a rare issue, but "I think" my amule, when no > upload limit, eats up my swap, and cause amule to crash. After I set > limit to 10K, the mule runs fine. I have 1G ram and 2G swap, and > without upload limit, amule crash very often. does anyone know what is > going on?? thank you! I've had problems with aMule crashing too. Typically it would run fine for a few hours, and then it would suddenly start allocating memory (my system memory usage graph went from a flat line to a line climbing with constant slope) and then it would exit and leave a core file behind. It might have been a segfault, but I don't remember. I'm not able to test it right now. My solution at the time was to run amule with "while true; do amule; done". James