From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Mar 10 14:16:34 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB18437B401 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 14:16:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from snafu.adept.org (adsl-67-117-158-73.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [67.117.158.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 123D143FAF for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 14:16:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@adept.org) Received: by snafu.adept.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id EC1809F074; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 14:16:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by snafu.adept.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8E2A9B06D for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 14:16:29 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 14:16:29 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Hoskins To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: High wired page count In-Reply-To: <20030310193327.GA2736@HAL9000.homeunix.com> Message-ID: <20030310141014.T25052-100000@snafu.adept.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Thus spake Peter Jeremy : > > I just happened to have a close look at the memory usage figures on > > various -STABLE machines and noticed that all of them are reporting > > vm.stats.vm.v_wire_count roughly 1/3 of total RAM. (My look was > > triggered by the sound of my firewall paging when I sent a query to > > its named). Was it really "paging"? See vmstat(8). > > Having 1/3 of memory wired strikes me as excessive That depends on a lot of things. 4.7-stable, up for ~25 days (last buildworld), 1GB RAM, maxusers=0 (auto-size based on RAM), mostly NFS/CIFS traffic, Mem: 283M Active, 160M Inact, 150M Wired, 8K Cache, 112M Buf, 412M Free vm.stats.vm.v_wire_count: 38295 -mrh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message