Re: port-amd64/54988: possible memory leaks/swap problems

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Andrew Doran wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR port-amd64/54988; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: Andrew Doran <ad%netbsd.org@localhost>
> To: MLH <mlh%goathill.org@localhost>
> Cc: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
> Subject: Re: port-amd64/54988: possible memory leaks/swap problems
> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 21:23:35 +0000
> 
>  > kmem-00192          256     4088775       0         182  4088593       15     255538          0  255538   4096 255538     0    inf    0 0x10000 100.0%
>  
>  That's about a gigabyte of kernel memory leaked.  I have a radeon card here. 
>  I'll try to reproduce it.

That's much less than I've seen recently. The really good thing is
that now the system isn't locking up or crashing. It just grinds
to a halt but with about 20 minutes of patient work :^) I can stop
X, and then either get a console up to do some housecleaning and
reboot or ssh in from my phone to reboot. That's a major improvement
over the last few weeks!  Yay!! Thanks!

I say maybe radeon because the more the display changes, the more
memory is leaked. I can just move the mouse around and activate
different windows and watch it change fairly rapidly. If I do jobs
that don't change the display much, the leak rate decreases.