From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Nov 19 10:25: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rumfish.corp.gulf.net (rumfish.corp.gulf.net [206.105.61.151]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CF4714DCE for ; Fri, 19 Nov 1999 10:24:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phill@rumfish.corp.gulf.net) Received: from localhost (phill@localhost) by rumfish.corp.gulf.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA03020; Fri, 19 Nov 1999 12:24:54 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from phill@rumfish.corp.gulf.net) Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 12:24:54 -0600 (CST) From: Phillip Salzman To: Tom Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Memory leaks? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > --------------------- > > Before > > --------------------- > > CPU states: 1.2% user, 0.0% nice, 0.8% system, 0.4% interrupt, 97.7% > > idle > > Mem: 7988K Active, 6796K Inact, 14M Wired, 8283K Buf, 222M Free > > Swap: 256M Total, 256M Free > > > > --------------------- > > After > > --------------------- > > CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 100% > > idle > > Mem: 10M Active, 214M Inact, 14M Wired, 10M Cache, 8337K Buf, 896K Free > > Swap: 256M Total, 256M Free > I don't really see a problem there. rsync did hammer the buffer cache > though. > > rsync uses a lot of memory because it builds the entire file list in > memory before starting. This makes rsync useless for large filesets. But why would a machine with 256M of RAM all of a sudden have problems with running out of memory during an rsync. It worked before I CVSup'd to the latest -STABLE kernel. I moved the home directories and mail three days ago (not latest -stable), at the same time, without difficulty. I guess I may have to find a way to move the files across that isn't so memory intensive. First i'll see if I can re-create the out of memory error with a different util... maybe slam it with web requests. Thanks -- Phillip Salzman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message