Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 10:35:52 -0700 From: "Brian O'Shea" <boshea@ricochet.net> To: "G.B.Naidu" <gbnaidu@sasi.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Memory leakage... Message-ID: <20000810103552.O351@beastie.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0008101658240.1465-100000@pcd75.sasi.com>; from G.B.Naidu on Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 05:05:26PM %2B0530 References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0008101658240.1465-100000@pcd75.sasi.com>
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On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 05:05:26PM +0530, G.B.Naidu wrote: > > Hi, > > I have been getting this error message on my FreeBSD 3.3 system: > > swap_pager: Out of Swap space. After digging a little bit, we found that > there is a lot of memory leakage happening. This is how we went about > finding: > > ps -aux for the process showed that vsz column was increasing very > fast. But the rss column was almost stable( was not changing much). For what process? (what program was running that had such a large vsz?) > > pstat -S also showed drastic fall in available swap space. > > My question is what could be the reason for this drastic increase in vsz > column of ps -aux output? Is it because of unfreed malloced memory? Why > rss is stable? Somebody could help me when will the vsz(virtual > size) increases? Yes, it is because of unfreed malloc()'ed memory. If it is a memory leak, the only way to free the memory is to kill the process that is leaking it. > -- > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) Don't get too comfortable. <http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/>; ;) -- Brian O'Shea boshea@ricochet.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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