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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