8.3 Memory Leak

2012-07-11 Thread Paul Macdonald
Hi, After a binary update to 8.3 i'm seeing wired memory increase steadily over the course of about a week, after which point i need to reboot the machine as it starts swapping. Several other boxes were updated at the same time, and all ports rebuilt post upgrade. FreeBSD x.x.com 8.3-RELEAS

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 - active plus inactive memory leak!?

2012-03-07 Thread Luke Marsden
On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 13:33 +0100, J B wrote: > On Wed, 07 Mar 2012 10:23:38 +0200, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 12:36:21AM +, Luke Marsden wrote: > > ... > >> I'm trying to confirm that, on a system with no pages swapped out, that > >> the following is a true state

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 - active plus inactive memory leak!?

2012-03-07 Thread J B
On Wed, 07 Mar 2012 10:23:38 +0200, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 12:36:21AM +, Luke Marsden wrote: > ... >> I'm trying to confirm that, on a system with no pages swapped out, that >> the following is a true statement: >> >> a page is accounted for in active + in

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 - active plus inactive memory leak!?

2012-03-07 Thread Luke Marsden
On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 10:23 +0200, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 12:36:21AM +, Luke Marsden wrote: > > I'm trying to confirm that, on a system with no pages swapped out, that > > the following is a true statement: > > > > a page is accounted for in active + inact

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 - active plus inactive memory leak!?

2012-03-06 Thread RW
On Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:30:07 -0500 Chuck Swiger wrote: > On 3/6/2012 2:13 PM, Luke Marsden wrote: > >* Resident corresponds to a subset of the pages above: those > > pages which actually occupy physical/core memory. Notably pages may > > appear in size but not appear in resident

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 - active plus inactive memory leak!?

2012-03-06 Thread Luke Marsden
Thanks for your email, Chuck. > > Conversely, if a page *does not* occur in the resident > > memory of any process, it must not occupy any space in the active + > > inactive lists. > > Hmm...if a process gets swapped out entirely, the pages for it will be moved > to the cache list, flushed, and

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 - active plus inactive memory leak!?

2012-03-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
On 3/6/2012 2:13 PM, Luke Marsden wrote: [ ... ] My current (probably quite simplistic) understanding of the FreeBSD virtual memory system is that, for each process as reported by top: * Size corresponds to the total size of all the text pages for the process (those belonging to

Re: Memory leak and swapfile

2010-11-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 26/11/2010 18:24, Jack Raats wrote: > It looks like that there may be a memory leak of my swap space with one > of the processes that is running. > Big question: How can I determine which process is responsible. > > Any suggestions? Look for a process with a really big SIZE in

Memory leak and swapfile

2010-11-26 Thread Jack Raats
It looks like that there may be a memory leak of my swap space with one of the processes that is running. Big question: How can I determine which process is responsible. Any suggestions? Thanks Jack ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: memory leak?

2010-08-23 Thread Ivan Voras
89 0 0 0 478 2 0 0 27 957 580 > avm + free adds up to only 3 Gb. > Where is the rest of the memory ?? There are a lot other uses for memory. Try running "top" a couple of time when you seem to detect the leak and add together the various categories of memory. &g

memory leak?

2010-08-23 Thread n dhert
leak, how to find what causes the memory leak? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Is this a kernel memory leak or a process memory leak?

2009-09-22 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:43:57 -0600, Modulok wrote: > Maybe I'm just not that bright, but I have a question regarding the following: > > man 3 getenv > > "Successive calls to setenv() or putenv() assigning a differently sized > value to the same name will result in

Is this a kernel memory leak or a process memory leak?

2009-09-22 Thread Modulok
List, Maybe I'm just not that bright, but I have a question regarding the following: man 3 getenv "Successive calls to setenv() or putenv() assigning a differently sized value to the same name will result in a memory leak. The FreeBSD seman- tics for these functions (namely, that th

Re: Memory leak with conky, anyone else?

2007-12-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 09:56:25PM -0700, Modulok wrote: > I get the feeling Conky 1.4.8 (the sysutil), or one of the libs it > links against, has a memory leak. I do not have any hard evidence yet > (like a patch to fix it), but the memory consumption slowly climbs to > what a

Memory leak with conky, anyone else?

2007-12-13 Thread Modulok
I get the feeling Conky 1.4.8 (the sysutil), or one of the libs it links against, has a memory leak. I do not have any hard evidence yet (like a patch to fix it), but the memory consumption slowly climbs to what appears to be excessive. I did read the manual page about: "Conky is gene

Re: Memory leak and deep swap upon the restart?

2007-03-14 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 15), Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri said: > Hello, > > I have a webmail server, has apache 2.2.4, mysql 5.0.33, php 5.2.1, > clamav, mailscanner ..etc. > > The weird issue it goes into deep swap when it starts or I restart it. > *sigh* > This happened since like 6 months I

Re: Memory leak and deep swap upon the restart?

2007-03-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 06:55:24AM +0300, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: > Hello, > > I have a webmail server, has apache 2.2.4, mysql 5.0.33, php 5.2.1, > clamav, mailscanner ..etc. > > The weird issue it goes into deep swap when it starts or I restart it. > *sigh* > This happened since lik

Memory leak and deep swap upon the restart?

2007-03-14 Thread Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
Hello, I have a webmail server, has apache 2.2.4, mysql 5.0.33, php 5.2.1, clamav, mailscanner ..etc. The weird issue it goes into deep swap when it starts or I restart it. *sigh* This happened since like 6 months I don't know why? it was okay before that. here is the top info last pid: 790;

Re: How to catch a memory leak?

2007-01-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 19, 2007, at 12:00 PM, Roger Olofsson wrote: The application vlc (found in ports) when run on FBSD 5.x and 6.x behaves as if there's a memory leak somewhere hidden in it. [ ... ] My question is how do I track down a possible memory leak and would there be a tool to monitor

How to catch a memory leak?

2007-01-19 Thread Roger Olofsson
Dear Mailing List, The application vlc (found in ports) when run on FBSD 5.x and 6.x behaves as if there's a memory leak somewhere hidden in it. This is appearing when starting vlc from shell playing a playlist and streaming video over udp to LAN like so: vlc --loop playlist.m3u -

Re: Memory leak in PHP on FreeBSD

2006-08-30 Thread pete wright
On 8/30/06, Tom Grove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was reading http://www.bsdnews.com and ran across an article about a memory leak in php and mysql on FreeBSD. This is fairly concerning considering I run quite a few servers with this setup. I haven't been able to find much do

Re: Memory leak in PHP on FreeBSD

2006-08-30 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Tom Grove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I was reading http://www.bsdnews.com and ran across an article about a > memory leak in php and mysql on FreeBSD. This is fairly concerning > considering I run quite a few servers with this setup. I haven't been

Memory leak in PHP on FreeBSD

2006-08-30 Thread Tom Grove
I was reading http://www.bsdnews.com and ran across an article about a memory leak in php and mysql on FreeBSD. This is fairly concerning considering I run quite a few servers with this setup. I haven't been able to find much documentation regarding this subject. It has been reported

Re: Memory leak?

2006-02-13 Thread Robert Leftwich
On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 11:00:46 +1100, "Robert Leftwich" > > I can't see anything that explains the discrepancy. Below is the top -o > size after a reboot, followed by the current top after 8 datasets (the > extra python process is the analysis app - at a low memory usage point): Oops, just noticed

Re: Memory leak?

2006-02-13 Thread Robert Leftwich
On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 17:58:07 -0500, "Charles Swiger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Feb 13, 2006, at 5:13 PM, Robert Leftwich wrote: > > Possibly your database is using lots of SysV shared memory, which > would explain why "wired" is going up so much, otherwise perhaps > something in the kern

Re: Memory leak?

2006-02-13 Thread Charles Swiger
On Feb 13, 2006, at 5:13 PM, Robert Leftwich wrote: After 1 dataset it is: Mem: 107M Active, 1919M Inact, 158M Wired, 16K Cache, 214M Buf, 570M Free Swap: 4068M Total, 4068M Free which totals 2968M While running on the 6th dataset: Mem: 1032M Active, 1045M Inact, 260M Wired

Re: Memory leak?

2006-02-13 Thread Robert Leftwich
On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:40:54 -0500, "David Scheidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > I've seen (very, very, very, very) large memory leaks on long-lived > Python processes. I haven't looked at it to figure out if it's > python, some module, or the application doing something stupid. But > the proc

Re: Memory leak?

2006-02-13 Thread Charles Swiger
On Feb 13, 2006, at 4:40 PM, David Scheidt wrote: Unfortunately no, its cli only, no x, pretty much just Postgres and Python and C :-( I've seen (very, very, very, very) large memory leaks on long-lived Python processes. I haven't looked at it to figure out if it's python, some module, or the

Re: Memory leak?

2006-02-13 Thread David Scheidt
gt; > There was a discussion on CURRENT@ some weeks ago about a memory leak > > that turned out to be firefox with some extensions, updates are > > available now. > > > > Unfortunately no, its cli only, no x, pretty much just Postgres and > Python and C :-( I&#

Re: Memory leak?

2006-02-13 Thread Robert Leftwich
On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 09:29:03 +0100, "Erik Norgaard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Do you run other applications also? > > There was a discussion on CURRENT@ some weeks ago about a memory leak > that turned out to be firefox with some extensions, updates are >

Re: Memory leak?

2006-02-13 Thread Erik Norgaard
Total, 707M Used, 3361M Free, 17% Inuse real memory = 3221159936 (3071 MB) avail memory = 3106529280 (2962 MB) What's the best way to track down more information as to the cause of this problem? Do you run other applications also? There was a discussion on CURRENT@ some weeks ago about a m

Re: Memory leak?

2006-02-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
Robert Leftwich wrote: [ ... ] > Mem: 274M Active, 227M Inact, 263M Wired, 95M Cache, 214M Buf, 4536K > Free > Swap: 4068M Total, 707M Used, 3361M Free, 17% Inuse > > real memory = 3221159936 (3071 MB) > avail memory = 3106529280 (2962 MB) > > What's the best way to track down more information a

Memory leak?

2006-02-12 Thread Robert Leftwich
After running some number crunching for the last twelve hours I noticed my box starting to use swap. Given that it has 4gb in it (of which 3gb is available, see my other email for that issue) and I know that the app never uses more than around 1gb I was surprised. Looking at the numbers from top I

Apache error logs memory leak

2006-01-04 Thread Jose Borquez
I keep getting errors in my apache error logs with the following: Is this a problem with PHP? /usr/ports/textproc/php5-xml/work/php-5.1.1/ext/xml/xml.c(695) : Freeing 0x0882 B624 (32 bytes), script=/usr/local/www/groupoffice-com-2.14-FINAL-4/modules/phps ysinfo/index.php /usr/ports/lang/php5/

Re: Top loses memory over time? Memory leak?

2004-12-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This machine sat unattended all day. What could be causing the drastic > drop in Free memory? Is this normal? When I actually use the machine, > it's even worse... Almost all of my RAM goes from Free to other > various states, Mostly Inactive, even after I've clos

Top loses memory over time? Memory leak?

2004-12-22 Thread Tim
Okay, here's the background. I thought top was displaying my memory stats oddly, so I ran a little test. I rebooted the pc, logged into the console as a normal user, and ran top. I did this at around midnight last night / this morning. I let it run until I got home from work, (6:15 today) So th

Memory leak in Perl?

2004-06-24 Thread Chris Miller
here was a memory leak reported in Perl 5.8.2 but I've found nothing on 5.8.4. Has anyone else experienced this with threaded perl? Regards, Chris Chris Miller NetGate Internet An iStrata Company ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://li

Re: netscape memory leak

2004-05-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 12:38:49PM -0700, whitevamp wrote: > sorry if this quistion has allread been asked and awnsered.. > > i got noticeing that my system was runnung out of mem so i did top and this is what > i found > > PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND > > 9936 da

netscape memory leak

2004-05-21 Thread whitevamp
sorry if this quistion has allread been asked and awnsered.. i got noticeing that my system was runnung out of mem so i did top and this is what i found PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND 9936 dave -22 0 219M 98M RUN 16:03 46.04% 46.04% netscape-bin 15211 dave 31 0 205

Ethereal: memory leak?

2004-05-14 Thread Schizik
Hello everyone! I have just noticed that ethereal eats a lot of memory. Currently it has no capture running and no file loaded. Previous analyzied file was about 56Mbytes. But it was closed. Is this behavior normal? Mem: 111M Active, 15M Inact, 46M Wired, 6820K Cache, 28M Buf, 564K Free Swap: 38

memory 'leak' with 5.2.1?

2004-05-06 Thread Woon Wai Keen @ doubleukay.com
> That does seem excessive. From my -CURRENT system (admittedly > up less that 24 hours): > > Mem: 179M Active, 190M Inact, 93M Wired, 25M Cache, 60M Buf, 7044K Indeed :\ After a reboot, it was great. The system became all responsive again, and it didn't swap anymore (applications were actually

memory 'leak' with 5.2.1?

2004-05-05 Thread Robert Huff
Woon Wai Keen @ doubleukay.com writes: > The output from top (after stopping services) reads: > > Mem: 12M Active, 10M Inact, 451M Wired, 1364K Cache, 59M Buf, 11M Free > Swap: 1024M Total, 15M Used, 1009M Free, 1% Inuse, 12K In > > I noticed that the amount of 'wired' memory before and af

memory 'leak' with 5.2.1?

2004-05-05 Thread Woon Wai Keen @ doubleukay.com
Hi list, I have been running 5.2.1 on a Celeron with 512MB RAM for nearly two months straight, but have been experiencing heavy swapping these past few days. In a last-ditch attempt, I stopped all the services hoping to reclaim the memory somehow. The output from top (after stopping services)

Re: Tool for detecting memory leak in FreeBSD 4.8

2004-04-12 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 12), jitendra pande said: > I didn't find any memory detection tool foir FreeBSD 4.8. > > Any idea how can i detect memory leaks in freeBSD 4.8 dmalloc in ports (ports/devel/dmalloc) is very useful for catching leaks. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Tool for detecting memory leak in FreeBSD 4.8

2004-04-12 Thread jitendra pande
Hi , I didn't find any memory detection tool foir FreeBSD 4.8. Any idea how can i detect memory leaks in freeBSD 4.8 Looking for an early reply. Thanks Jitendra - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th _

Re: Memory leak on 5.1-RELEASE?

2004-01-31 Thread Jorn Argelo
tty Pc ttyv4 > 872 v5 Is+ 0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv5 > 873 v6 Is+0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv6 > 874 v7 Is+0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv7 > 520 con- I 0:02.81 /usr/local/sbin/snmpd > 534 con- I 0:00.01 /bin/sh /usr/local/bin/mys

Re: Memory leak on 5.1-RELEASE?

2004-01-31 Thread dpk
VSZ. On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Jorn Argelo wrote: > Are you sure that there isn't anything else running? Why don't you give us > an ps -ax output? I don't think there's a memory leak in 5.1, since I've > seen running 5.1 just fine on a PE2650 with 2 GB RAM. You should

Re: Memory leak on 5.1-RELEASE?

2004-01-31 Thread Jorn Argelo
Are you sure that there isn't anything else running? Why don't you give us an ps -ax output? I don't think there's a memory leak in 5.1, since I've seen running 5.1 just fine on a PE2650 with 2 GB RAM. You shouldn't rely on top too much acually. Vmstat is a better

Memory leak on 5.1-RELEASE?

2004-01-30 Thread dpk
(I'm not a member of the list; please Cc me on any replies.) We're running Apache 1.3.28 on a 5.1-RELEASE machine. It's a Dell PE 2650 w/ 2GB RAM. The site contains a lot of large files (multi-megabyte) - otherwise there's nothing unusual running. The Active memory use, according to top, seems ra

memory leak problem

2003-02-12 Thread Sam Izzo
Hi, Woops, sorry about my other "asdf" spam email.. :-) This might be a stupid/obvious question but dmalloc is reporting that I have a memory leak in the following (test) program and I don't know why: #include #include #include int main(int argc, char **argv) { char