Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 08:59:36 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Odd out-of-swap condition; ideas? Message-ID: <199710151559.IAA06427@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Oct 1997 21:32:03 %2B0930." <199710151202.VAA00264@word.smith.net.au>
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>Tue Oct 14 21:18:24 GMT 1997 >Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type >/dev/sd0s1b 131072 130212 796 99% Interleaved > PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TT TIME COMMAND > -6 0 39236 5188 biowai D ?? 61:57.12 .../bin.linux/idl display_init > 2 0 3708 2388 select Ss ?? 3:36.05 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -auth ... > >Note that just about everything else is gone, and still no swap left. >Then, eventually the display dies too, and immediately all is well >again: > >Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type >/dev/sd0s1b 131072 9696 121312 7% Interleaved >PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TT TIME COMMAND > -6 0 4240 836 biowai D ?? 0:00.23 .../bin.linux/idl analysis_init > 2 0 3708 2436 select Ss ?? 3:38.57 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -auth ... > -6 0 944 464 biowai D ?? 0:00.02 exptd: experiment: ... > >(The analysis and experiment were resurrected by their startup scripts) > >The conclusion reached from this is that the display process has >somehow managed to own a lot of swap that wasn't attached to it. Are you sure that the display proc had no children (which may have gone away when the system killed off the parent)? -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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