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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!isolar!isolar!not-for-mail From: earle@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US (Greg Earle) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Subject: Re: top-3.2 memory leak (Re: m_*bsd.c for top 3.0?) Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.apps Date: 24 Oct 1993 15:23:21 -0700 Organization: Personal Usenet site, Tujunga, CA USA Lines: 36 Message-ID: <2aev8p$2io@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US> References: <29g3i2$o4q@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> <ASAMI.93Oct22220018@forgery.cs.berkeley.edu> <2ad2ti$8n@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <g89r4222.751465624@kudu> NNTP-Posting-Host: isolar.tujunga.ca.us Summary: Tell the author In article <g89r4222.751465624@kudu>, Geoff Rehmet <g89r4222@kudu.ru.ac.za> wrote: >In <2ad2ti$8n@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> rkb55989@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Rafal Boni) writes: >>asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi ASAMI) writes: > >>>top-3.0 used to kill itself after a few hours---I haven't witnessed >>>what happens to top-3.2, but my machine crashed a couple of days ago >>>(with a long-running top of 4 megs or so). I don't know if it's >>>because of top, but I was away and nothing but xscreensaver and top >>>was running (actively) on the machine. This machine hasn't crashed >>>for more than a week until then. > >> I have seem this not only on BSD, but on a bunch of systems, >> many of them being the university *NIX machines.... On the >> sequent symmetry that I have all my mail routed to, it grows >> much faster then on my 486 box... [But then again, the symmetry >> has gonzo memory, so it would probably take years to crash ;>] > >I have just compiled top-3.3 and it also has a problem with an >almightly huge memory leak. > >-- >===========================csgr@alpha.ru.ac.za================================ > Geoff Rehmet, Parallel Processing Group, | ____ _ o /\ > Computer Science Department, | ___ _-\_<, /\/\/\ > Rhodes University, RSA. | (*)/'(*) /\/\/\/\/\ And *of course* all of you are telling the author, William LeFebvre (phil@pex.EECS.NWU.EDU), about this so he can see if there is a problem/fix, right? -- - Greg Earle Phone: (818) 353-8695 FAX: (818) 353-1877 [Call # again if Internet: earle@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US you get data tone] UUCP: isolar!earle@elroy.JPL.NASA.GOV a.k.a. ...!elroy!isolar!earle