Re: [MLUG] all out of swap - memory leak

[Michael <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.

This is a good example of why it's a good idea to set memory limits on 
users. Easy enough to do in Linux with ulimit. I'd expect it's similar 
on Solaris. ;)

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Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
http://kavlon.org

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