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Date:      Wed, 16 Oct 2002 16:00:21 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net>
To:        Ben Stuyts <ben@stuyts.nl>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, <current@freebsd.org>, <jeff@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [Ugly PATCH] Again: panic kmem_malloc()
Message-ID:  <20021016155845.B89360-100000@mail.chesapeake.net>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20021016213322.01c6d348@terminus>

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On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Ben Stuyts wrote:

> I just got the same panic without your patch. (I wanted to verify that it
> was still panic-ing with the latest src tree.) I am now building a kernel
> with your patch.
>
> I'll also run your vmstat script that you posted in a similar thread. One
> of the big memory users seems to be sem, and it's growing. Almost every
> time I do a vmstat -m, sem usage has grown a few k.
>

[snip]
>            sem167320  2622K   2622K   167320  16,1024,4096
[snip]

Thank you for looking into this.  It definitely looks like a memory leak.
I forwarded this to alfred.  He was just working on semaphores so he may
know something about it.

>
> I'll see what the stats are tomorrow.
>
> Kind regards,
> Ben
>
Much appreciated.

Cheers,
Jeff


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