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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!nigel.msen.com!hela.iti.org!widener!dsinc!jabber!candle!root From: root@candle.uucp (Bruce Momjian) Subject: Re: Swap staying full? References: <2b9g97$93g@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> Organization: a consultant's basement Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1993 15:29:14 GMT X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Message-ID: <CFz4Cr.2xw@candle.uucp> Lines: 18 Alex Tang (altitude@css.itd.umich.edu) wrote: : Hi all. I'm wondering if i should be worried about this. : I'm running NetBSD-0.8 on a machine with 5 meg ram. When I do large builds, : my swap (10 megs) gets pretty full. Unfortunately, if, when the build is : finished, the swap is 87% full, it stays 87% full, and if i try to do another : build, it gets to 100% full. and then it hangs. : Is this some memory leak? Is there any way i can prevent this (without : rebooting, which is what I do now)? I have the same problem under BSD/386. Karels is working on it. As soon as I hear something, I will try to get permission to distribute it to the 386bsd groups. I am also running in 5MB ram. -- Bruce Momjian | 830 Blythe Avenue root%candle.uucp@bts.com | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026 + If your life is a hard drive, | (215) 353-9879(w) + Christ can be your backup. | (215) 853-3000(h)