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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!rkb55989 From: rkb55989@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Rafal Boni) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Subject: Re: top-3.2 memory leak (Re: m_*bsd.c for top 3.0?) Date: 24 Oct 1993 05:13:22 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 48 Message-ID: <2ad2ti$8n@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <29g3i2$o4q@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> <CEzt2r.1BF@luva.stgt.sub.org> <ASAMI.93Oct22220018@forgery.cs.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: uxa.cso.uiuc.edu asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi ASAMI) writes: >(Note: orignial article was in .questions, but I moved it over because > I thought it's more suitable here) >In article <CEzt2r.1BF@luva.stgt.sub.org> > migieger@luva.stgt.sub.org (Michael Giegerich) writes: > * It's included in top-3.2 (and top-3.3beta). > * Important: you have to uncomment the #define PATCHED_KVM > * then compilation is straight forward. >Great, I uncommented it and now top runs happily as ever. However, I >still have a problem (which existed in top-3.0 I got from agate's >unsupported/from-ref directory too)---top seems to have a memory leak. >It was about 400k when it started, and now (after running for about >three hours), it stands at 1.4 megs. It grows much slower than >top-3.0, though. >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 ;>] >My system is 386DX-40, FreeBSD 1.0-Epsilon. I have some problems with >the disk (which I posted about a while ago, and got two replies), and >the keyboard locks once in a while, but otherwise it's pretty stable. >Many thanks for the great system! >--- > o o Satoshi Asami > Form follows Function. ^ > (asami@CS.Berkeley.EDU) > Tel: (510)547-0336 (home) Computer Science Div., Dept. of EECS > (510)642-1845 (office) University of California at Berkeley --rafal