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From: root@candle.pha.pa.us (Bruce Momjian)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: BSDI 2.0.1 swapspace leak fix?
Date: 8 Dec 1995 21:11:43 GMT
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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.

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