[MLUG] all out of swap - memory leak

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Using Solaris - I could not create a new process.  This was very 
disturbing because it meant that I couldn't even check to see what was 
running or look at log files.  So I came into the office to work at the 
console and was able to log in as root (after killing X) and see some 
warning messages about having no swap space.  Then I created some new swap 
space and was able to start new processes and see what was going on. 
There was one rxvt job, run by one naive user, that was overwhelming the 
system.  I killed that job and it freed up 4GB of swap.  Go figure. I 
suppose that would be an example of a program with a memory leak. If 
anyone has any helpful comments or clues, I'd appreciate it.  I guess I'll 
try to get a newer version of rxvt and install it in case it fixes this 
leak.  On the other hand, I've been running this version of rxvt (2.7.1) 
for a few years without incident.

Mike
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