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From: robinb@merlin.bhpmrl.oz (Robin Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: memory hungry init?
Message-ID: <1372@merlin.bhpmrl.oz>
Date: 8 Jan 90 02:45:49 GMT
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Has anybody encountered a situation where the init process grows to
excessive proportions and brings the system to its knees?

What follows is some ps stats on the init process on one of our
machines that has this problem (a DN3500 running sr10.1)

USER       PID   SZ  RSS TTY     STAT  TIME COMMAND  before reboot
root         121600   54 ?       S <   6:05 init

USER       PID   SZ  RSS TTY     STAT  TIME COMMAND  immediatly after
root         1 1376  708 ?       S <   0:23 init

USER       PID   SZ  RSS TTY     STAT  TIME COMMAND  a bit later on
root         1 1408  664 ?       S <   0:23 init

USER       PID   SZ  RSS TTY     STAT  TIME COMMAND  ditto
root         1 2144   70 ?       S <   0:36 init

USER       PID   SZ  RSS TTY     STAT  TIME COMMAND  the next day
root         110272   70 ?       S <   2:48 init

at this point response time was significantly longer than normal and
the system had to be rebooted. 

Apollo(/HP) have seen this sort of thing before but they don't know
what causes it.  The only known solution is to rebuild the machine,
which (as I'm sure you can appreciate) I don't want to have to do - 
at least not until I lay my hands on a copy of sr10.2

Any help would be much appreciated

Robin

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