Subject: Re: 2.0 kernel eating all memory
To: Florian Stoehr <netbsd@wolfnode.de>
From: Florian Stoehr <netbsd@wolfnode.de>
List: port-amiga
Date: 01/22/2005 22:06:51
On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Florian Stoehr wrote:

> On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Ruediger Engel wrote:
>
>> Hi John!
>> 
>>> Has anyone besides Al Zick and myself noticed that memory allocated to the 
>>> kernel on NetBSD 2.0 on at least Amiga and mac68k keeps growing and 
>>> growing until the system runs out of memory and crashes?
>>> 
>> Yes, just to confirm this. My A4000 still does not run long enough to have 
>> eaten up _all_ the memory, but after just 2 days of uptime it already uses 
>> 32MB:
>> 
>> Amiga 4000 with 128MB of memory after 2 days, mostly busy building software 
>> from pkgsrc:
>>   6 root      18    0     0K   32M syncer    22:57  0.15%  0.15% [ioflush]
>> 
>> Did anyone of the mac68k-Users confirm this or is this problem 
>> netbsd/amiga-specific?
>> 
>> Regards
>> Ruediger
>> 
>
> Mm, my A4000/040 with (amazing) 16 MB just halts during compilation jobs. I 
> have to test this with another "top" or "vmstat" console. The "cannot lock on 
> myself" message I saw on the debugger promt while A+A+CTRL might point into 
> your direction (?).
>
> Guess I'll try 1.6.2 and compare them within next week.
>
> -Florian
>

Hi,

I produced another stop with top running. Memory seems not a problem for 
me, the machine suddenly stopped with 3,5 M file and 1,1 M free :-(

I'll swap that RAM before the next try...

-Florian