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Date:      Sun, 26 Nov 2000 13:22:32 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
To:        "William S. Duncanson" <caesar@starkreality.com>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: rpc.statd memory leak?
Message-ID:  <200011262122.eAQLMWN27116@earth.backplane.com>
References:   <5.0.0.25.2.20001125224624.00a5f7a8@maggie.netspend.net>

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:After upgrading from 4.1.1-STABLE to 4.2-STABLE, I noticed that rpc.statd 
:has grown to huge proportions.  Well, OK, looking at the timestamps of the 
:sources, it doesn't look like rpc.statd has changed at all.  It is, 
:however, huge:
:root     128  0.0  0.1 263060  604  ??  Is   10:27PM   0:00.01 rpc.statd
:
:System has been rebooted within the past half hour, but look at that 
:vsz.  Eventually, rss will grow as well.  Killing rpc.statd doesn't free 
:the memory.  NFS traffic on this machine is light, to say the least, with 
:only one client mounting /home.
:
:Any ideas what could be causing this, or how to fix it?

    Don't worry about it.  rpc.statd is reserving a huge amount of VM
    space for some sort of log.  It has always done this.  It doesn't
    actually use any of it, so no real memory gets eaten.  It's annoying
    to look at but not actually harmful.  I'm annoyed at whoever wrote it,
    but I've never examined the code closely enough to figure out the best
    way to 'fix' it.  It has never been a priority.

						-Matt



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