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Date:	Wed, 16 Oct 2002 23:06:21 +0200
To: Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net>
From: Ben Stuyts <ben@stuyts.nl>
Subject: Re: [Ugly PATCH] Again: panic kmem_malloc()
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At 22:00 16/10/2002, Jeff Roberson wrote:

>On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Ben Stuyts wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
>Much appreciated.

No need to wait for tomorrow. :-) Just 1.5 hours later, vmstat -m says:

<           sem167344  2622K   2622K   167344  16,1024,4096
---
 >           sem235512  3687K   3687K   235512  16,1024,4096

So it looks indeed like sem is the problem,

Kind regards,
Ben


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