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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] web site being down & reliability
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
Date: Thu,  9 Mar 2006 16:37:19 -0500
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> 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