From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 8 04:04:26 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90E4E106568C for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2008 04:04:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from QMTA08.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta08.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.80]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C00B8FC15 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2008 04:04:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from OMTA03.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.27]) by QMTA08.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id PxB81a01A0bG4ec5844Rn2; Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:04:25 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([69.181.141.110]) by OMTA03.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id Q44L1a00F2P6wsM3P44MQG; Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:04:21 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=QycZ5dHgAAAA:8 a=Y0bO-bhwBOklDdZxSGIA:9 a=gVOxKsDH12SxMgAFv36VoYQWeRIA:4 a=EoioJ0NPDVgA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 73020C9419; Tue, 7 Oct 2008 21:04:20 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 21:04:20 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Yuri Message-ID: <20081008040420.GA66117@icarus.home.lan> References: <48EBCC75.1040908@rawbw.com> <20081007222528.GA60058@icarus.home.lan> <48EBF40D.5050807@rawbw.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48EBF40D.5050807@rawbw.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Strange memory/cpu behavior X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:04:26 -0000 On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 04:43:09PM -0700, Yuri wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> Regarding the "memory bloat", what field in top(1) are you basing this >> on? >> > > For the total CPU usage I used > CPU: 100.0% user Active... all others were zeros. > For the process CPU I looked at WCPU. I'm a little confused. I was mainly referring to your statement: "There is one large active process slowly growing in memory from 500MB to 1300MB, not reading or writing any files." What field in top(1) were you looking at to determine this kind of growth? -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |