From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 8 15:41:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA18768 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 15:41:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from mail1.relcom.ru (mail1.relcom.ru [193.125.153.4] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA18750 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 15:41:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from xander@agizubna.relcom.ru) Received: from agiz (uucp@localhost) by mail1.relcom.ru (8.7.5.R.ML.S/Relcom-2A) with UUCP id CAA29937 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG;Fri, 9 Jan 1998 02:42:44 +0300 (MSK) Received: by Relay1.relcom.ru (UUMAIL/2.0); Fri, 9 Jan 98 02:42:44 +0300 Received: from 1775.g23.relcom.ru (d60.z194-58-229.relcom.ru) by agizubna.relcom.ru with SMTP id AA08600 (5.65.kiae-1 for ); Fri, 9 Jan 1998 03:34:07 +0400 Message-Id: <34B56227.1D35@agizubna.relcom.ru> Date: Fri, 09 Jan 1998 02:32:55 +0300 From: XaN Reply-To: xander@agizubna.relcom.ru Organization: Home X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Help! I need more info about vmstat than man gives me Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, Experts! Please tell me what is the field named Couldfree in the following output produced by vmstat -m Memory statistics by bucket size Size In Use Free Requests HighWater Couldfree 16 38 730 1025 1280 0 32 233 151 7294 640 0 64 5098 86 7963399 320 0 128 5764 124 148347 160 0 256 4209 111 84307 80 1 512 80 40 6131 40 0 1K 148 236 8225143 20 269085 2K 11 9 24 10 0 4K 5 1 109 5 0 8K 3 0 3 5 0 16K 4 0 4 5 0 32K 1 0 1 5 0 ..... My problem: I debug my own server application and worry about correct memory usage. I noticed that Couldfree value always grows at the computer running my server program. Is it dangerous? Xan