On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 05:05:26PM +0530, G.B.Naidu wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have been getting this error message on my FreeBSD 3.3 system:
>
> swap_pager: Out of Swap space. After digging a little bit, we found that
> there is a lot of memory leakage happening. This is how we went about
> finding:
>
> ps -aux for the process showed that vsz column was increasing very
> fast. But the rss column was almost stable( was not changing much).
For what process? (what program was running that had such a large vsz?)
>
> pstat -S also showed drastic fall in available swap space.
>
> My question is what could be the reason for this drastic increase in vsz
> column of ps -aux output? Is it because of unfreed malloced memory? Why
> rss is stable? Somebody could help me when will the vsz(virtual
> size) increases?
Yes, it is because of unfreed malloc()'ed memory. If it is a memory
leak, the only way to free the memory is to kill the process that is
leaking it.
> --
> Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
Don't get too comfortable. <http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/>
;)
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