Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 09:52:48 +0400 (MSK) From: "Igor V. Ruzanov" <igorr@canmos.ru> To: Daniel Corbe <corbe@corbe.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freeing wired memory Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1410130946450.21211@sta1.canmos.ru> In-Reply-To: <ygfmw94ov5r.fsf@corbe.net> References: <ygfmw94ov5r.fsf@corbe.net>
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As said Anton aerlier, wired its kernel memory. So called unpageble regions "living" in a RAM (physical memory). | |There's an application running on one of my hosts which has a memory |leak in it. It ends up consuming a fair chunk of available RAM: | |Mem: 2312M Active, 69M Inact, 13G Wired, 39M Cache, 1684M Buf, 354M Free | |My understanding is Wired memory is memory that may not necessarily be |in use but it is reserved for applications that either have at one point |needed it or may need it in the future. | |I'll kill the app in another few days or so because calls to malloc() |will begin to fail across the board. | |But my main problem right now is I usually have to reboot the box |because killing the app and restarting it does NOT return any memory to |the free pool. | |The step I'd like to avoid here is rebooting the box. | |So I'm obviously missing something. | |-Daniel |_______________________________________________ |freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list |http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions |To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" | +-------------------------------------------+ ! CANMOS ISP Network ! +-------------------------------------------+ ! Best regards ! ! Igor V. Ruzanov, network operational staff! ! e-Mail: igorr@canmos.ru ! +-------------------------------------------+
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