Very large innfeed processes

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Mon Apr 10 05:35:02 UTC 2000


This is a message from last November... are you still seeing this problem?

Miquel van Smoorenburg <list-inn-workers at news.cistron.nl> writes:

> I followed yur advice and set max-queue-size to 5. I also turned on
> mmap() for innfeed, that should also prevent some more copying. Alas, it
> is still growing bigger and bigger:

> wormhole% ps uw 12744
> USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
> news     12744 12.1 10.7 2084368 27736 ?     SN   Nov28  90:25 /usr/local/news/bin/innfeed -y -c innfeed2.conf -p innfeed2.pid -S /v

> Almost 2 GB used now .. when it reaches that it will probably crash.
> Weird thing is that RSS is "only" 27M, somehow 2054212K has been
> mmap()ed anonymously (output from /proc/12744/maps on linux, prefixed by
> size):

> 2054212K 429ef000-c0000000 rwxp 829f0000 00:00 0

> Weird.. wondering if this is a bug in innfeed or in Linux's glibc ..

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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