Package: hurd Version: 20000921 On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 08:48:54PM +0000, Frederico S. Muņoz wrote: > > 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 am seeing this, too, but it's news to me. Today is the first time I really saw it happen. pflocal get's suddenly nervous, and memory usage blows up, within a few seconds it sucks up all availalable RAM, and then swap (but slower). I saw a swap decrease of 4 MB every few seconds. It's hard to get diagnostic info at this stage. I could run one "ps aux", which showed a memory usage of 66 MB, but after that, I could not get the number of ports nor the number of threads. I will try to get more info. Maybe it is related to the pflocal changes without the corresponding new glibc, and updating glibc fixes that. Anyway, for the record, I submit it as a Debian bug. Please drop [EMAIL PROTECTED] when replying. Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org for public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]