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- From: biff@biff.gbdata.com (Dwight Everhart)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: My Machine crashed Halloween
- Message-ID: <BzoBGt.AKI@biff.gbdata.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:31:40 GMT
- References: <2B336136.9214@news.service.uci.edu>
- Sender: biff@biff.gbdata.com (Dwight Everhart)
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- In article <2B336136.9214@news.service.uci.edu> rmyers@dec5200.acs.uci.edu
- (Richard Myers) writes:
- > But my machine crashes 'for no appearant reason' about
- > every 3 days, and sometime my swapfile grows to the size of my free space
- > - 20 meg or so (that's a 520Meg swapfile).
-
- It sounds like a daemon process is allocating memory that it is not freeing.
- I had a similar problem with npcomm, a program started by lpd for use with
- the NeXT printer. It would sit there and allocate memory. After a week, my
- swapfile filled and my system panicked. Since I didn't have a NeXT printer,
- I removed the reference to npcomm from the printcap file (netinfo
- /printers/Local_Printer). (I deleted the value for the "if" property.) Once
- I rebooted, everything was fine. This problem occurred under 2.0. I don't
- know if it exists under 3.0 or 2.1.
-
- Your problem my not be with npcomm, but I suggest that you do a "ps guax"
- shortly before a crash and look for a process that has allocated a huge
- amount of memory. It's probably the culprit.
-
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