From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 8 17:11:04 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id RAA26305 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 May 1995 17:11:04 -0700 Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA26299 for ; Mon, 8 May 1995 17:11:03 -0700 Received: from bang.rain.com (bang.rain.com [199.2.100.61]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.11) with ESMTP id RAA04851 for ; Mon, 8 May 1995 17:04:10 -0700 Received: (from john@localhost) by bang.rain.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id RAA15698; Mon, 8 May 1995 17:06:41 -0700 From: John Cavanaugh Message-Id: <199505090006.RAA15698@bang.rain.com> Subject: Re: patch for running out of swap space bug in 1.1.5.1? To: Kai.Vorma@hut.fi Date: Mon, 8 May 1995 17:06:40 -0700 (PDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199505082230.BAA21336@vinkku.hut.fi> from "Kai Vorma" at May 9, 95 01:30:50 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1040 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > John Cavanaugh writes: > > I'm running 1.1.5.1 on a 486/66 with a small newsfeed and am running > > out of swap space every 5 days or so. I have heard rumors of there > > being a patch out somewhere to fix this problem but I didn't see anything > > when I went and looked around on cdrom.com. Is there a patch out there > > somewhere or should I give in and upgrade to 2.x? Thanks. > > FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 leaks memory if you don't have enough RAM. I had a 486 > with 4MB RAM (FreeBSD-1.1.5.1 + all relevant patches from ref and > mailing-lists) working as UUCP-server and it run out of swap every few > days (and crashed or had to be rebooted). We added 4MB more RAM about > 8 weeks ago and it has now been up 55 days :-) Yeah, I have 8Mb in the box right now. The problem was that when I initially setup the machine, I only gave it 8Mb of swap (oops). But, with that 8Mb of ram and 8Mb of swap, I still run out swap and need to reboot every 5 days. -- John Cavanaugh "There can be only one."