From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 15 11:40:36 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id LAA01001 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 15 Feb 1995 11:40:36 -0800 Received: from p5.spnet.com (elh.com [204.156.130.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA00986 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 1995 11:40:31 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by p5.spnet.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA00446 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 1995 11:38:40 GMT Message-Id: <199502151138.LAA00446@p5.spnet.com> X-Authentication-Warning: p5.spnet.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: 950210-SNAP, VM Free Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 11:38:39 +0000 From: Ed Hudson Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk howdy. my apologies for my previous incomplete mail message. i was trying out a feature i hadn't used before in my mail system... but i am having a problem with disappearing memory space. i'm running 950210-SNAP, and i'm experiencing a significant VM free memory leak, just doing normal long (big) compiles. here's what top thinks before and after the long compile. after the compile, the system is quiet: load averages: 0.07, 0.03, 0.01 11:07:00 41 processes: 1 running, 40 sleeping --->>> Memory: 14M Act 1520K Inact 2860K Wired 13M Free (before) load averages: 0.33, 0.59, 0.57 11:01:42 48 processes: 1 running, 47 sleeping --->>> Memory: 15M Act 1192K Inact 3220K Wired 3812K Free 3% Swap (after) 11:01AM up 1:38, 5 users, load averages: 0.33, 0.59, 0.57 Free space has lost about 10mbytes ! is this a known problem ? i have outputs from the following script: top -b >>ks uptime >>ks ps -aux >>ks swapinfo >>ks pstat -s >>ks vmstat >>ks iostat >>ks /bin/ls -l /proc >>ks vmstat -i >>ks vmstat -m >>ks vmstat -s >>ks /bin/ls -lR /proc >>ks from before and after the occurrance of the problem, and can submit these if they would be usefull. i can also reproduce the problem readily, but haven't yet minimized the conditions that create it. so i'm open for suggestions... thanks. sup-ping now... -elh