On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 02:21:04PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2008-Oct-15 21:37:36 +0100, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Peter, there was a bug causing dump to hang (completely unrelated to > >UFS2 snapshot generation) merged to RELENG_7 a month or so ago. Can you > >try updating? > > Well, dump wasn't hanging, rather it was hanging the rest of the system. > In any case, I have upgraded to a recent -stable and am no longer able > to reproduce the problem. > > I have built myself a looping 'ps -axl' which should let me gather more > information if it does re-appear. (In the process, I've found that ps > leaks memory, though that's not a problem until you wrap it in a loop).
What memory ? Kernel one ? How did you noted this ? Could you add vmstat -z and vmstat -m to the loop and watch what allocation grows ?
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