Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 01:28:00 +0000 From: Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Significant memory leak in 9.3p10? Message-ID: <5514B220.6080308@multiplay.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <CABXB=RRsF4RoMiVA88WeAgXoYQihU8s2g3T=ToO3HW9DceroKw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CABXB=RRhynY5FWvw3tHrLFRyitTemavXYLBpev5Mjs_kPqimXA@mail.gmail.com> <20150316232404.GM2379@kib.kiev.ua> <CABXB=RSt0MgEyoJs4o5utTg7oSu0RZ%2B-czeY0k-Ro%2BfRubK3kQ@mail.gmail.com> <CABXB=RTe9d0DD68RCi6JWKH%2BcK%2Ba8McmKmeejTypLhVZRc0t7w@mail.gmail.com> <CAN6yY1si_6KRXrTdXABGdtAfqRcCyqqe48acbVUmRT1eZ7tuXw@mail.gmail.com> <CABXB=RRsF4RoMiVA88WeAgXoYQihU8s2g3T=ToO3HW9DceroKw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 26/03/2015 23:47, J David wrote:
> In our case,
>
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 5:03 PM, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> wrote:
>> This is just a shot in the dark and not a really likely one, but I have had
>> issues with Firefox leaking memory badly. I can free the space by killing
>> firefox and restarting it.
> In our case, we can log in from the console, kill every single
> user-mode process on the system except the init, login, and the
> console shell, and the memory is not recovered. Gigabytes and
> gigabytes user memory of it are being held by some un-findable
> anonymous persistent structure not linked to any process. Konstantin
> proposed that it was some sort of shared memory usage, but there
> appears to be no way to check or investigate most types of shared
> memory usage on FreeBSD.
>
Does vmstat -m or vmstat -z shed any light?
Regards
Steve
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