Re: how to hunt for suspected memory leaks?

2006-02-25 Thread Toni Mueller
Hello, On Fri, 24.02.2006 at 21:49:16 +, Nick Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/24/06, Gabriel George POPA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I understand your problem. In fact a closer analysis will show that there is no problem. Probably the memory you are reporting as filled

how to hunt for suspected memory leaks?

2006-02-24 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, I have a PC running 3.8 which is currently idle (ie, it is powered on, but nobody uses it except me for minor maintenance). The box showed the following behaviour over the last few weeks: w/o much processes running and almost no activity, the amount of free memory shown in 'top' decreases

Re: how to hunt for suspected memory leaks?

2006-02-24 Thread Spruell, Darren-Perot
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [... doesn't have idle memory] Is it a real problem, or is this only misleading top output (despite the machine feeling quite sluggish)? Or does OpenBSD put idle memory to productive use elsewhere, making the perception that it is just leaking away? DS

Re: how to hunt for suspected memory leaks?

2006-02-24 Thread Gabriel George POPA
I understand your problem. In fact a closer analysis will show that there is no problem. Probably the memory you are reporting as filled is used for caching/memory. At work I have an OpenBSD 3.8 system (with 1GB RAM, P4 3GHz) and I haven't noticed such a thing. Nevertheless, I don't

Re: how to hunt for suspected memory leaks?

2006-02-24 Thread Nick Guenther
On 2/24/06, Gabriel George POPA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I understand your problem. In fact a closer analysis will show that there is no problem. Probably the memory you are reporting as filled is used for caching/memory. Caching RAM is space reserved for data being used by the