> > Another problem showed up, though: the box I was buiding on has 4GB RAM, 
 > > and about 2.5 GB available when I start nightly (according to vmstat). 
 > > However, the build failed with an "out of space" error (mksh: Fatal 
 > > error: fork failed: Not enough space).
 > 
 > Hmm, in the last couple of weeks I had observed an 
 > amanda backup server failing with strange "out of space"
 > errors; in some cases the machine was hung (ping was possible,
 > but console and network login was not possible).  kmdb ::memstat
 > showed that almost 100% of memory was in use by the kernel,
 > so most likely there is a memory leak somewhere.
 > 
 > Unfortunately all my attempts to find the root cause for the
 > leak have failed (kmdb crashing / kernel was unable to write
 > a complete crashdump / all attempts to find a leak with
 > kmem_flags = 0xf have failed)

Shot in the dark here, but maybe 6786794?

-- 
meem
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