From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 11 20:13: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C02815106 for ; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 20:12:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA69914; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 23:15:56 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199912120415.XAA69914@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: bloated rpc.statd In-Reply-To: from Marc Schneiders at "Dec 12, 1999 03:25:23 am" To: marc@oldserver.demon.nl (Marc Schneiders) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 23:15:56 -0500 (EST) Cc: steveroo@mothra.bri.hp.com (Stephen Roome), questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Marc Schneiders wrote, > 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. The obligatory "Me too!!" post. % uname -mrs FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386 % top last pid: 77387; load averages: 1.13, 1.05, 1.01 up 33+05:21:23 23:06:23 22 processes: 2 running, 20 sleeping CPU states: 1.9% user, 65.8% nice, 8.2% system, 8.6% interrupt, 15.6% idle Mem: 11M Active, 2144K Inact, 7188K Wired, 1584K Cache, 2494K Buf, 484K Free Swap: 80M Total, 20M Used, 60M Free, 25% Inuse, 192K In, 408K Out PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND . . . 68532 root 2 0 257M 0K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% . . . It's supposedly using 257 MB on a system with 24 MB RAM and 80 MB of swap... now how's that work? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message