Re: resource leak in fifo_vnops.c: 6.x/7.x/8.x

2009-11-06 Thread Attilio Rao
2009/11/6 Dorr H. Clark dcl...@engr.scu.edu: We believe we have identified a significant resource leak present in 6.x, 7.x, and 8.x. We believe this is a regression versus FreeBSD 4.x which appears to do the Right Thing (tm). We have a test program (see below) which will run the system

resource leak in fifo_vnops.c: 6.x/7.x/8.x

2009-11-05 Thread Dorr H. Clark
We believe we have identified a significant resource leak present in 6.x, 7.x, and 8.x. We believe this is a regression versus FreeBSD 4.x which appears to do the Right Thing (tm). We have a test program (see below) which will run the system out of sockets by repeated exercise of the failing

Re: resource leak

2008-10-02 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 16:36 -0400, Stephen Clark wrote: Robert Watson wrote: On Wed, 1 Oct 2008, Gary Palmer wrote: ps alxw may be of interest in addition to ps auxw as it displays what the processes are waiting on. It could conceivably be a problem of some kind at the filesystem

Re: resource leak

2008-10-02 Thread Robert Watson
On Wed, 1 Oct 2008, Stephen Clark wrote: A big part of problem is this seems to take about 100 days of uptime to occur. We have some inhouse test boxes but have never seen the problem, probably because non of them have been up more than about 45 days. The units in the field, of which there

resource leak

2008-10-01 Thread Stephen Clark
Hello List, I am running into a strange problem that points to a resource leak. The problem manifests itself after one of our remote systems has been up around 100 days. The symptom is that it appears no new processes can be spawned. If I try to ssh to the unit, I can see the 3-way tcp

Re: resource leak

2008-10-01 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 07:41:56AM -0400, Stephen Clark wrote: Hello List, I am running into a strange problem that points to a resource leak. The problem manifests itself after one of our remote systems has been up around 100 days. The symptom is that it appears no new processes can

Re: resource leak

2008-10-01 Thread Stephen Clark
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 07:41:56AM -0400, Stephen Clark wrote: Hello List, I am running into a strange problem that points to a resource leak. The problem manifests itself after one of our remote systems has been up around 100 days. The symptom is that it appears

Re: resource leak

2008-10-01 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 08:30:26AM -0400, Stephen Clark wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 07:41:56AM -0400, Stephen Clark wrote: Hello List, I am running into a strange problem that points to a resource leak. The problem manifests itself after one of our remote systems

Re: resource leak

2008-10-01 Thread Stephen Clark
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 08:30:26AM -0400, Stephen Clark wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 07:41:56AM -0400, Stephen Clark wrote: Hello List, I am running into a strange problem that points to a resource leak. The problem manifests itself after one

Re: resource leak

2008-10-01 Thread Josh Carroll
Thanks, but after reading the thread is there a single place in the kernel that reports the how many fds are currently in use? Does the no more fds message get logged in /var/log/messages or only in the kernel log buffer, since I haven't seen that message in the messages file, and since we

Re: resource leak

2008-10-01 Thread Gary Palmer
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 04:50:46AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 07:41:56AM -0400, Stephen Clark wrote: Hello List, I am running into a strange problem that points to a resource leak. The problem manifests itself after one of our remote systems has been up

Re: resource leak

2008-10-01 Thread Robert Watson
On Wed, 1 Oct 2008, Gary Palmer wrote: Periodically logging ps -auxw output to a file would be useful, as ideally you'd gradually see the list get longer and longer over time; it's possible you have many zombie processes as a result of a parent which is not reaping its children (calling

Re: resource leak

2008-10-01 Thread Stephen Clark
Robert Watson wrote: On Wed, 1 Oct 2008, Gary Palmer wrote: Periodically logging ps -auxw output to a file would be useful, as ideally you'd gradually see the list get longer and longer over time; it's possible you have many zombie processes as a result of a parent which is not reaping its

Re: Problems with BIND in 4.2-STABLE (resource leak?)

2001-01-27 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
-On [20010127 05:05], Bill Moran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm having trouble with BIND in 4.2-STABLE (Jan 18 22:16:33) I'm running the version of BIND that installs by default (named -v reports 8.2.3-T6B) [snip RAM problem] Has anyone else seen this, or have I got some unique problem here?

Re: Problems with BIND in 4.2-STABLE (resource leak?)

2001-01-27 Thread Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werv en writes: -On [20010127 05:05], Bill Moran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm having trouble with BIND in 4.2-STABLE (Jan 18 22:16:33) I'm running the version of BIND that installs by default (named -v reports 8.2.3-T6B) [snip RAM