SUMMARY: ever increasing wired/MIPC memory

From: John K. Peterson <jkpeters_at_acs2.byu.edu>
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 10:12:52 -0700 (MST)

On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Saul Tannenbaum wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, John K. Peterson wrote:
>
> > We are running DU 3.2D-1 with 512M RAM.
> >
> > We are experiencing a problem with ever-increasing wired memory. 'vmstat
> > -M' seems to suggest that the problem lies with type MIPC of size 128. At
> > worst we've seen both of these at >150M!
> >
> > Looking in the archives of this list, there have been reports of similar
> > problems, although I didn't see any solutions.
>
> Indeed. I called mine "The Incredible Expanding Kernel".
>
> [...]
>
> Are you running the Polycenter Performance Advisor software? If so, that's
> your cause. Get the patched version from Digital's CSC.

We were. We got the patched version. That was it.

Thanks!

John Peterson -- University Networking Services -- Brigham Young University
Internet: John_Peterson_at_byu.edu Phone: (801) 378-5007
Received on Mon Nov 04 1996 - 18:41:29 NZDT

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