Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 09:25:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jas@flyingfox.com (Jim Shankland) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, karl@mcs.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Oh, how I hate it when I find leaks in mbuf clusters :-) Message-ID: <199803100925.CAA13727@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199803092327.PAA02345@biggusdiskus.flyingfox.com> from "Jim Shankland" at Mar 9, 98 03:27:48 pm
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> Hmm. Notice that even with this horrendous mbuf leak, there is less > than 8 MB of memory allocated to the network. > > Given that memory keeps getting cheaper and cheaper, and that finding > and eliminating memory leaks is time-consuming and error-prone, > perhaps we should forget about freeing memory at all, and simply > buy more. At today's prices, for example, it's probably not > unreasonable for a server machine like Karl's to be equipped with > 128 MB of memory dedicated to network buffers. By the time that > runs out, it's likely to be even cheaper to add another 256 MB. Sun had a memory leak on the platforms for the "a day on the Internet" or something similarly named, last year. Between all of the machines and all of the streaming video from all over the world, they were leaking 20,000 Commodore 64's an hour. 8^). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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