From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 11 18:25:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBE11150D9 for ; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 18:25:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marc@oldserver.demon.nl) Received: from [212.238.105.241] (helo=propro) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 11wyhA-000BRp-00; Sun, 12 Dec 1999 02:25:08 +0000 Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 03:25:23 +0100 (CET) From: Marc Schneiders To: Stephen Roome Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bloated rpc.statd In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message