>There's clearly some sort of memory leak here.  I'm not sure why only
>Kent and I are seeing it but I don't think this bodes well that 
>something like this can be extant for 6+ months...
>
>About a week ago, I bumped kern.somaxkva=64MB and the machine ran
>fine for a week. Just now it got clogged up again.  I couldn't bring it
>back alive by bumping kern.somaxkva higher so I had to reboot it. Having
>to reboot a NetBSD machine once a week seems a little sub-optimal.

just out of curiosity...

what version of netbsd is this?

do you have any/all of the DEBUG, DIAGNOSTIC, MALLOC_DEBUG, or
KMEMSTATS options enabled in your kernel config?

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