Haik Aftandilian wrote:
> Rob McMahon wrote:
>> Hmm, I admit I'm playing around with this system, and turning everything 
>> in sight on, but this surely can't be right:
>>
>> SunOS wonky 5.11 snv_93 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris
>>   4:29pm  up 5 day(s),  1:15,  1 user,  load average: 0.11, 0.14, 0.14
>> ps -o etime,comm -p 545
>>     ELAPSED COMMAND
>>  5-01:16:35 /usr/X11/bin/Xorg
>>
>>    PID USERNAME  SIZE   RSS STATE  PRI NICE      TIME  CPU 
>> PROCESS/NLWP      
>>   5538 root      640M  593M sleep   59  -14   0:48:06 2.9% VirtualBox/12
>>    545 root     1102M  924M sleep   59    0  20:25:51 2.7% Xorg/1
> 
> Do you have the little power applet on your gnome task bar?
> 
> My 2008.05 system upgraded to 93 seemed to exhibit the same 
> problem--after leaving the gnome desktop up for a few days, I couldn't 
> even start new processes such as mdb -k or new gnome-terminals.
> 
> I noticed the power applet was something new in build 93 and after 
> removing it from the task bar a few days ago, I haven't seen the 
> problem. I've also rebooted a few times since it was removed.

I take that back, I'm still seeing a problem. After staying logged into 
gnome for approximately 36 hours, system memory is exhausted and the 
machine becomes unusable. This is preventing me from getting work done 
so I've reverted back to build 91. (beadm works great). Build 91 is 
noticeably quicker--in my gnome-session, applications seem to start 
faster and everything is more responsive.

When the problem occurs, if I hit CTRL-ALT-delete to kill X, I can 
briefly log in remotely. At that time, I can get into kmdb and run 
::memstat and I see there is plenty of free memory. Though as the Nvidia 
logo pops up on the screen things grind to a halt and after about 2 
minutes it finally gets to the GDM login. I've attempted to use dtrace, 
but once X starts up after CTRL-ALT-delete, no commands are responsive.

This is on a Pentium 4 with 2GB of RAM. I'm using the Nvidia driver 
96.43.05 as I have a GeForce2 card.

I'm yet to encounter this problem with build 93 on my Ultra-24, which 
has been up for 9 days. Although this machine has 6GB of RAM.

Haik

> 
> I haven't gotten around to filing a bug yet.
> 
> Haik
> 
>>    683 cudcv     260M  143M sleep   59    0   0:09:50 0.9% gnome-netstatus/1
>>    862 cudcv     491M  323M sleep   49    0   0:25:58 0.5% 
>> thunderbird-bin/11
>>    681 cudcv     133M   22M sleep   59    0   0:04:26 0.2% wnck-applet/1
>>   4330 cudcv    2350M 2343M sleep   59    0   5:46:07 0.1% compiz-bin/1
>>    666 cudcv      88M   22M sleep   49    0   0:00:31 0.1% gnome-terminal/2
>>
>> Xorg running at 1GB RSS, compiz 2.3GB.  Memory seems to hit the roof, 
>> particularly when you run some of the fancy 3D screensavers.
>>
>> Just an observation.  Since moving to OpenSolaris (os200805 -> nv91 -> 
>> nv93) I've been having to log out and back in again every few days.  On 
>> Solaris 10, that would have been a few months.  I know I can do without 
>> all the fancy eye-candy, but I'm pushing the system to see what I can 
>> recommend to other people, and I don't believe it should come at this cost.
>>
>> Rob
>>
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