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From: altitude@css.itd.umich.edu (Alex Tang)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Swap staying full?
Date: 3 Nov 1993 23:53:11 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan ITD/User Services
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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)?
Thanx...alex...
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