From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] web site being down & reliability
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 16:37:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d743d82c04ca7754b953a2f426ac9fa4@swtch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1cc43661a51e16266fb8b944cd1827ec@swtch.com>
> There appears to be a slow memory leak somewhere in
> the kernel. The down time on March 4 was not because
> the gateway machine crashed but because the internal
> machine that hands the gateway web files had run out of
> memory. We still haven't found this bug, nor have we tried
> very hard to track it down. We've seen other machines
> panic with this too, all once the machine has been up a
> long time (pids in the tens of millions).
I found this today using the new kmem(1) command.
Approximately 32 bytes per attach. Sources fixed but
no new kernels yet.
Russ
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-09 21:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-09 6:54 Russ Cox
2006-03-09 18:30 ` [9fans] 9p flush rog
2006-03-09 18:40 ` jmk
2006-03-09 18:55 ` Russ Cox
2006-03-09 19:03 ` rog
2006-03-09 18:59 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-03-09 21:37 ` Russ Cox [this message]
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