[SunHELP] memory leak under Solaris 7

[bigj at flatwan.net]

Thanks for the reply Dale. I guess my only question now is why the system
doesn't return the memory to other processes once it's done. What's
happening  now is it just keeps removing ram until there is none left.

Jon


On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Dale Ghent wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 bigj at flatwan.net wrote:
>
> | I've got a Sparc 10 dual 75 with 128 megs of ram and it appears that no
> | matter what I do, it chews up memory. This appears to happen while it's
> | compiling stuff, deliver/accepting email, etc. If I let it run long enough
> | it'll drop to almost zero megs physical memory.
> |
> | I've removed any unnecessary applications from running. Is there some way
> | to track this down? I'd rather not go through a full install or for that
> | matter an upgrade to Solaris 8 but if I must I will.
>
> You're not running into a memory leak, you're just seeing the kernel use
> the free RAM for disk buffer, which would make sense if you've got i/o
> instensive applications like mail and compilers running.
>
> when Solaris needs more ram for the kernel or a process, it frees up the
> memory in use for disk buffer and allocates it to whatever needs it.
>
> /dale
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