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From: mwilley@ilx018.intel.com (Mark Willey~)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: NetBSD 1.1/i386 Swap space problem
Date: 30 May 1996 21:15:22 GMT
Organization: Intel Corporation, Chandler, AZ
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Rob Landry (umar@wcrb.com) wrote:
: I'm using a 386DX/33 with 4 MB RAM, running NetBSD 1.1, as a DNS server
: and mail server.  Each morning I log in and do a pstat -T.  A week ago
: after rebooting the machine it said 3M/63M.  Today it says 21M/63M, and
: every day that number seems to rise.

: I'm running popper, sendmail and named.  This machine normally isn't used
: for anything else, and I can't imagine what should require 21 megabytes
: of swap space.

: Has anyone else ever encountered this problem?

The word on the mailing lists is that you should kill and restart named,
or just reboot weekly.  There was also some murmur about a leak in the
VM system...?

Mark

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 Mark Willey
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