"Stephen R. Gore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 10:58:12AM -0400, ryan.tecco wrote: > > > my machine is a P133,32 MB RAM, 500MB free. connected > > > to the hurd via rsh and ftp, after a while of transferring, > > > i get on console: > > > > > > (default pager): dropped <SOMETHING> because of previous paging > > > error. > > > > You're out of memory. Buy a new stick or add swap! (running the hurd w/o > > swap is not good). > > Actually, I've been experiencing similar problems, and I have 128M/128M > RAM/swap.
Same problem here, same RAM, same swap. > Seems that the process /hurd/pflocal has a memory leak. Very > repeatable, most often triggered by apps that use advanced terminal > functions (screen, vi, dselect for example). If not killed, the process > will swap my box to death. OTOH, after I've killed such runaway processes > once or twice, the problem doesn't usually occur again. Indeed, the same happens to me... and many times it swaps so much that I can't even kill anything because even ps Aux will not work; only reset will end its misery. > I've been unable to determine precisely what is causing the behaviour, only > the symptoms and the affected process. > > Running gnumach 1.2-7 on an Athlon 500. > Same gnumach on an Athlon 700. best regards, Frederico Mu�oz -- Frederico S. Mu�oz GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian http://www.debian.org http://sdf.lonestar.org - SDF Public Access Unix Systems
