Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 2 Oct 2000 23:31:12 +0000 From Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de Mon Oct 02 18:31:12 2000 Return-path: Received: from sunu450.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de [::ffff:134.147.64.5] by master.debian.org with smtp (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian)) id 13gF3A-0001NZ-00; Mon, 02 Oct 2000 18:31:12 -0500 Received: (qmail 14610 invoked from network); 2 Oct 2000 23:31:11 -0000 Received: from dialppp-11-24.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (HELO localhost) (mail@134.147.11.24) by mailhost.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de with SMTP; 2 Oct 2000 23:31:11 -0000 Received: from marcus by localhost with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 13gF4C-00006M-00; Tue, 03 Oct 2000 01:32:16 +0200 Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 01:32:16 +0200 From: Marcus Brinkmann To: submit@bugs.debian.org, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Frederico_S=2E_Mu=F1oz?= Cc: "Stephen R. Gore" , debian-hurd@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: kernel panic/paging error Message-ID: <20001003013216.A287@ulysses.dhis.net> References: <200010021337.PAA29492@bolero.cs.tu-berlin.de> <20001002171424.C587@ulysses.dhis.net> <20001002103136.A2356@cerebrus.dhis.net> <878zs7ynnt.fsf@alioth.cyberobriga.pt> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.4i In-Reply-To: <878zs7ynnt.fsf@alioth.cyberobriga.pt>; from fsmunoz@sdf.lonestar.org on Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 08:48:54PM +0000 Organization: Marcus Brinkmann's Home Delivered-To: submit@bugs.debian.org 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 submit@bugs.debian.org 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 Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de, marcus@gnu.org PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ brinkmd@debian.org