Re: serious memory leak in hurd

2010-06-14 Thread Da Zheng
On 10-6-13 下午6:28, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Da Zheng, le Sun 13 Jun 2010 11:54:10 +0800, a écrit : >>> It is. Are you perhaps using the old K16 qemu image? There is a bug >>> with it, you need to fix the image size >> >> No, I'm not using the qemu image. Hurd runs in VMWare. But I used K16 CD to

Re: serious memory leak in hurd

2010-06-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Da Zheng, le Sun 13 Jun 2010 11:54:10 +0800, a écrit : > > It is. Are you perhaps using the old K16 qemu image? There is a bug > > with it, you need to fix the image size > > No, I'm not using the qemu image. Hurd runs in VMWare. But I used K16 CD to > install Hurd. Can it be a problem? In prin

Re: serious memory leak in hurd

2010-06-12 Thread Da Zheng
Hello, On 10-6-13 上午7:06, Samuel Thibault wrote: >>> Mmm, this could just be gnumach not writing back the cached data that >> Why does gnumach need to write back the data? > > Ah, sorry, you're reading the file not writing it. Anwyay, it's still > the same issue: gnumach doesn't dare dropping it.

Re: serious memory leak in hurd

2010-06-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Da Zheng, le Sat 12 Jun 2010 21:23:51 +0800, a écrit : > On 10-6-12 下午7:58, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Da Zheng, le Sat 12 Jun 2010 19:46:49 +0800, a écrit : > >> Here is what I did. I scp a big file from the Hurd (in the virtual > >> machine) to > >> the host OS. I check the memory statics with v

Re: serious memory leak in hurd

2010-06-12 Thread Da Zheng
On 10-6-12 下午7:58, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hello, > > Da Zheng, le Sat 12 Jun 2010 19:46:49 +0800, a écrit : >> Here is what I did. I scp a big file from the Hurd (in the virtual machine) >> to >> the host OS. I check the memory statics with vmstat constantly. After a >> while, I >> can see the

Re: serious memory leak in hurd

2010-06-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Da Zheng, le Sat 12 Jun 2010 19:46:49 +0800, a écrit : > Here is what I did. I scp a big file from the Hurd (in the virtual machine) to > the host OS. I check the memory statics with vmstat constantly. After a > while, I > can see the physical memory in the hurd system is exhausted and the

serious memory leak in hurd

2010-06-12 Thread Da Zheng
Hello, I was debugging my DDE NIC driver, and found a serious memory leak. At first I thought it was caused by my modification in gnumach. Then I tried the gnumach from the debian repository and the original pfinet, and the same memory leak occurs. Here is what I did. I scp a big file from the Hu