I suspect that the real problem is a memory leak in the
swapper.  I have been running some memory intensive
programs which progressively fill up swap to about 90%.

Before starting, swapctl -lk shows 0% usage
After finishing, drops from 90% to 8% 
After repeated, more intensive test - drops from
90% to 30% - and stays there.

Does this ring bells for anyone?      G.


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Andrew Gillham [SMTP:gillham@vaultron.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, 3 January 2001 10:13 am
> To:	Jenkins, Graham K [IBM GSA]; 'Manuel Bouyer'
> Cc:	port-i386@netbsd.org
> Subject:	Re: /tmp in swap - kernel panic - NetBSD 1.5
> 
> I've used memtest86 in the past.  It seems pretty decent, though
> I don't have anything to compare it to. :-)
> 
> -Andrew
> 
> http://reality.sgi.com/cbrady_denver/memtest86/
> 
> From: "Jenkins, Graham K [IBM GSA]" <Graham.K.Jenkins@team.telstra.com>:
> > I just took a look and found that video-RAM shadow was enabled.
> > Would that have caused it?  And does anyone have a good memory-test
> > program?
> >
> > G.
> 
>