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Re: Memory leak in Solaris 2.7 kernel?
From: Emre Yildirim <emre () SRENGINEERING COM>
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 18:48:26 -0600
Here is what I got: NetBSD: ************************** ~# uname -smr NetBSD 1.5S i386 ~# ../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../* bash: xmalloc: cannot allocate 6023 bytes (0 bytes allocated) Connection to silicon closed. ************************** IRIX: ************************** # hinv | head -n 5 FPU: MIPS R10010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 0.0 CPU: MIPS R10000 Processor Chip Revision: 2.6 8 195 MHZ IP27 Processors Main memory size: 2048 Mbytes Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes # uname -smr IRIX64 6.5 IP27 # ../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../* Out of memory. *************************** Solaris: *************************** # uname -a SunOS sync 5.7 Generic_106541-10 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-2 # psrinfo -v Status of processor 0 as of: 03/17/01 19:40:57 Processor has been on-line since 03/05/01 15:18:50. The sparcv9 processor operates at 296 MHz, and has a sparcv9 floating point processor. Status of processor 1 as of: 03/17/01 19:40:57 Processor has been on-line since 03/05/01 15:18:53. The sparcv9 processor operates at 296 MHz, and has a sparcv9 floating point processor. # # ls ../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../* ^C ^C Shell doesn't respond anymore, but load stays around 1.00. *************************** Linux: I've tried this on Mandrake 7.2, and the system becomes very unstable and freezes in the end. I had to hard reset the computer. My $0.02: I don't really see this as a bug, since it has to be executed as root, and depending on your shell, you can limit normal users' memory usage (ulimit/limit?). -- Experience varies directly with equipment ruined.
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