Req: Help tracking possible kernel memory leak. - possibly filesystem related

[Peter Jeremy]

On Wed, 2006-Aug-02 15:22:26 +1000, Q wrote:
>I have made some more progress on identifying this problem. If I drop  
>to single user mode, and then unmount the volume that houses the  
>database and the raw data, the accumulated memory is released. When  
>it did this earlier it dropping from 870M 'active' to 7M  
>'active' (according to top), just by unmounting the filesystem.

I'm sure that's not supposed to happen...

You might like to capture the output from 'sysctl vm' and see how
it changes over time.  If you can identify what particular variable
is leaking, it might help locate the problem.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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