Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 12:10:31 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Mike Knoll <knollm@lafcol.lafayette.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Impossible memory size reporting Message-ID: <19990225121031.B25529@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.990225122405.6945A-100000@lafcol.lafayette.edu>; from "Mike Knoll" on Thu Feb 25 12:26:14 GMT 1999 References: <Pine.SOL.3.96.990225122405.6945A-100000@lafcol.lafayette.edu>
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In the last episode (Feb 25), Mike Knoll said: > I have rpc.statd running on a 3.1-RELEASE machine, and it shows a > virtual size of 263megs. Is something wrong in my configuration? > Everything works fine, but this is an insane amount of memory to be > resonable. > > My 2.2.8-RELEASE machine does not do this. > > ps -axl > 0 7316 1 0 2 0 262968 552 select Is ?? 0:00.00 rpc.statd I think I remember reading about this a while back, and the culprit is the mmap() that rpc.statd does. It definitely does not use that much memory. A ps on a 2.2.8 prints reasonable numbers. -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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