Significant memory leak in 9.3p10?

[Doug Hardie]

> On 26 March 2015, at 18:02, Chris H <bsd-lists at bsdforge.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 26 Mar 2015 20:28:15 -0400 J David <j.david.lists at gmail.com> wrote
> 
>> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 8:25 PM, Chris H <bsd-lists at bsdforge.com> wrote:
>>> As Kevin already noted; stopping firefox, and starting it again,
>>> seems the only solution.
>> 
>> The machines in questions are servers, they do not run Firefox or any
>> GUI.  And whatever is using the memory does not show up on ps or top.
> Fair enough. I'm still getting caught up, on the thread.
> 
> Maybe another "shot in the dark". But speaking of Servers. We
> ran into trouble with a web server generating *enormous* error
> logs -- a runaway script. The result was, even tho there was
> far more than adequate space for the swelling log(s). Memory,
> and eventually Swap usage, began to climb quite steadily.
> 
> Like I said; maybe a shot in the dark. But just thought I'd
> mention it.

I just encountered the same problem on a FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p3 server today.  Swap was at 100% and processes were being killed.  I used ps ax and killed all the processes with W status that I could.  Swap usage went down to 99%.  This was a production server so was forced to reboot.  After the reboot, the system came back up with the same process set and zero swap used.  Shortly after that a core image appeared and the root filesystem was full.  The core file was about 1 GB.  However, none of my processes are anywhere near that.  The specific process that was dumped is only about 140 lines of C code and doesn’t have any dynamic storage used, just a couple of short character strings and one integer.  The binary file is 23KB.  I couldn’t take time to run gdb on it as it was affecting production.