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

[mlh%goathill.org@localhost (MLH)]

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>
> 
>  On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 11:20:01PM +0000, MLH wrote:
>  
>  >  Another thing I noticed is that it seems to lose memory the fastest
>  >  when text is scrolling in an xterm at high speed, such as building
>  >  sets, or building/installing pkgsrc binaries. If I hide the window
>  >  during those operations, the loss rate slows pretty dramatically.
>  
>  I tried compiling some stuff with the output going to an xterm and sure
>  enough it starts to leak out of kmem-192:

I found another source of memory leakage this morning at 4am when
"daily" started up. I watched vmstat as memory went from ~70% used
(with essentially nothing running) to ~98% used and was never
recovered and had to reboot. I had started suspecting this as every
morning I usually have to reboot the box to make it usable.

This with NetBSD 9.99.64 Fri Jun  5