On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 10:33:50AM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote: > > I am seeing this, too, but it's news to me. Today is the first time I > really > saw it happen. > > pflocal get's suddenly nervous, and memory usage blows up, within a few > seconds it sucks up all availalable RAM, and then swap (but slower). I saw > a > swap decrease of 4 MB every few seconds. > > The described scenario sounds familiar. I've seen it happening for > quite some time. I just thought it had something to do with > /hurd/term and pseudo terminals. But no hard evidence for that. Are > you guys sure it is pflocal?
Well, it's pflocal which gets all the memory, but this could be a symptom, not the cause. It's hard to tell. > It's hard to get diagnostic info at this stage. I could run one "ps aux", > which showed a memory usage of 66 MB, but after that, I could not get the > number of ports nor the number of threads. I will try to get more info. > > Yes please! As I said, everytime it happens (and I am not sure how to trigger it), I can do perhaps one or two commands. > Maybe it is related to the pflocal changes without the corresponding new > glibc, and updating glibc fixes that. > > Probably not. It has been happening to me since before tinkering with > pflocal. Ok, that's a word. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org for public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
