From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 27 01:28:03 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D15624D4 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 2015 01:28:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f49.google.com (mail-wg0-f49.google.com [74.125.82.49]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6737CA13 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 2015 01:28:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wgra20 with SMTP id a20so83344526wgr.3 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 2015 18:28:01 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=7EjLUgRuBFZ3IZB0SiFGRHLq4X3iPPryal270s/merw=; b=I+N3dxxfwAOkPHSO2ngmAbDxkxeuFE/vAWkhelEp7Bd3hwXuMoVLaDYT1VEfKLQqmn Sq4IM/nZQM2dVigqtXvefTjxXfMgQS9tcTks40aLSMU1ZNdvNnkhI0ao1jVVKpoUV1tK Jb0DzI6uGEQx8ZpeR4CeAxoeqQAkRzNH9TG26JziGe91Y/pIVySgWpvthvNp2mEmYBv3 aVWcVcXhS5JLWK1eQKaUQaDSO3EqCE4sSh49+s1F2tXoVgY3nOW86xJfUnymsLPnej/O AX5T3aR9H9XZY2rpSVi26y7jj8905vTwkUREw+FkHz+UalWPf6NgNKz1qAjQpUPZx7qz aotA== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmU6WE6FUbHIhNRWEGMm8QdIWJc4X5TWTnmguVMxzRAgoew9vVQF6PEBUPBTgGG8vLdlJYc X-Received: by 10.195.12.35 with SMTP id en3mr31802262wjd.129.1427419681761; Thu, 26 Mar 2015 18:28:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.10.1.68] (82-69-141-170.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk. [82.69.141.170]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id hj10sm606555wjc.48.2015.03.26.18.28.00 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 26 Mar 2015 18:28:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5514B220.6080308@multiplay.co.uk> Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 01:28:00 +0000 From: Steven Hartland User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Significant memory leak in 9.3p10? References: <20150316232404.GM2379@kib.kiev.ua> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 01:28:03 -0000 On 26/03/2015 23:47, J David wrote: > In our case, > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 5:03 PM, Kevin Oberman 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