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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!cs.umd.edu!coopnews.coop.net!hops.entertain.com!usenet From: dwatson@abwam.com (Darryl Watson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: BSDI 2.0.1 swapspace leak fix? Date: 10 Dec 1995 01:45:53 GMT Organization: ABWAM, Inc. Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4ade4h$46v@hops.entertain.com> References: <4a0hk0$20d@news2.ucsd.edu> <4aa9mf$6pr@picasso.op.net> <4aaehi$eav@moon.igcom.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp012.entertain.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.92.5 In article <4aaehi$eav@moon.igcom.net>, david@terra.igcom.net (David Bauman) says: > >: Brian Kantor (brian@nothing.ucsd.edu) wrote: >: : We're suffering from running out of swapspace; it appears that it's a >: : known problem with BSDI 2.0.1 (and probably earlier) where processes >: : that fork chew up swapspace. Any patch to fix this yet? > >: I asked BSDI if the next release will fix this problem and was told the >: "swap overallocation" bug has been improved but not eliminated in the >: 2.0/2.0.1 release. I read this to say they do not have a fix for this >: in the next release. > >This is unacceptable. I have multiple machines running BSDI BSD/OS 2.0.1 >and my whole business relies on BSD/OS. The price that BSD charges for >their software should run with NO bugs whatsoever. > > >David Bauman > You actually believe that a collection of software on the scale of BSDi should be totally bug-free? Get a clue. No, get two... they're small.