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- From: mskucher@math.uwaterloo.ca (Murray S. Kucherawy [MFCF])
- Subject: Re: putuserattr() chomping memory
- Message-ID: <Bu24rs.66C@math.uwaterloo.ca>
- Organization: Math Faculty Computing Facility, University of Waterloo, Canada
- References: <Btv3po.9sB@math.uwaterloo.ca> <1992Sep3.151648.15335@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 14:11:51 GMT
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- curt@ekhadafi.austin.ibm.com (Curt Finch 903 2F021 curt@aixwiz.austin.ibm.com 512-838-2806) writes:
- >mskucher@math.uwaterloo.ca (Murray S. Kucherawy [MFCF]) writes:
- >>I have a program (yes, the same one as before) that uses frequent calls
- >>to putuserattr() and its friends. It seems that after a large number of these
- >>calls, my page space is filling to the brim, and the program gets SIGKILLed
- >>by the kernel.
- >
- >someone smarter than me asked:
- >
- > "does he ever do a close (enduserDB)?"
- >
- >I assume this means that enduserDB() releases memory.
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- I tried adding that after, say, every 20 users. No improvement.
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