swap or memory leak on recent master?

Alex Hornung ahornung at gmail.com
Thu Jul 7 00:49:00 PDT 2011


vmstat -m output might be helpful in seeing what M_foo has an
unproportionally big amount of memory.

Cheers,
Alex

On 7 July 2011 06:05, YONETANI Tomokazu <y0n3t4n1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On recent -DEVELOPMENT kernel(x86_64), the swap usage (the Inuse percentage
> in top output) slowly increases, and finally it runs out of swap space in
> about a week on my Atom D510 with 4G of RAM.  Once that happens, even
> dropping to single user mode doesn't help; the swap usage doesn't reduce
> after the most user processes are terminated.  I'm running pbulk but without
> using jail nor devfs with jail option now.
>
> Is there anything I should look at so as to understand how the memory
> and/or swap space is lost?
>
> Best Regards,
> YONETANI Tomokazu.
>






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