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From: root@candle.uucp (Bruce Momjian)
Subject: Re: Swap staying full?
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Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1993 15:29:14 GMT
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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.
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