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Date:      Sun, 12 Dec 1999 03:25:23 +0100 (CET)
From:      Marc Schneiders <marc@oldserver.demon.nl>
To:        Stephen Roome <steveroo@mothra.bri.hp.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bloated rpc.statd
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912120252250.19210-100000@propro.oldserver.demon.nl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPX.4.10.9912071628530.7191-100000@mothra.bri.hp.com>

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On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Stephen Roome wrote:

> rpc.statd appears to get quite large, does anyone else have this, or is it some
> curious problem only I get ?
> 
> [[ Output from "uname -a" : ]]
> 
> FreeBSD moose.bri.hp.com 3.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Oct 22
> 14:49:19 BST 1999     steve@sse0691.bri.hp.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/MOOSE  i386
> 
> ----
> 
> [[ Output from "ps axug | egrep -e stat -e USER" : ]]
> 
> USER     PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS  TT  STAT STARTED      TIME COMMAND
> root   41712  0.0  0.0 262976    8  ??  Is   30Nov99   0:00.00 rpc.statd
> 
> ----
> 
> Now, I've only got 80Mb of memory, so the following output from swapinfo
> confuses things :
> 
> [[ Output from "swapinfo -k" : ]]
> 
> Device      1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Type
> /dev/wd0s1b    131072     7624   123320     6%    Interleaved
> 
> So, I guess the question is, where is this 256Mb of memory that's being used by
> rpc.statd, or is it not really used ? Also, if I restart it, it grows that big
> instantly, so, do I just not need to worry about it, or can someone explain
> what this means ?
> 
> Thanks for any help in advance,
> 
> 	Steve Roome
> 
> P.S. I can supply more information if needed, but I expect that this is normal
> and I've missed something obvious!
> 

I have this occasionally, also 256 MB, which happens to be the real
memory of my box. It does not come back immediately though. I would be
interested in an explanation.

I'm running 4.0 (15 days old) SMP. More info can be supplied.

Marc Schneiders

marc@venster.nl
marc@oldserver.demon.nl

propro         	  2:52am  up   2 days,   4:20,  load average: 4.10 4.06 4.01




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