From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 23 09:51:01 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A87E410656A6 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:51:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ndhertbsd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com (mail-ww0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 413A18FC14 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:51:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwf26 with SMTP id 26so716636wwf.31 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 02:51:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:date:message-id :subject:from:to:content-type; bh=IdE5lQWvNLPS0/utPkAGg8+WePOAALb4Yq0+mP9SwSU=; b=J44W2z9++3fr3CoEOmhzX9RlRSN178kB/fpnK9TounUPwtbtFlAzSSFmeRy6Y+cs5N mRnpPa2tuIW9vryyglbpsaQ7ZN5UOreP/Z8+0TGHGNGeBBoKDczmhV23asd7gq5MUrN9 l+a+qW+k7L/MVkzegj9uRv8mhK3EtW1mCBXVU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=Wmwt9+LmUtV1CU4adORuYTT7+qAP5NcVH9DrhL1YFqxrPq+a4ZIa3NTI5c3W5tS7lW S/KC+HBfOE7aX0astXUdnPPw2J8s6LSgojTmnjLLl4x88nukg0kwVPFDzw83fv+K6Zle qLyWCdsWEXcmGFgit8E8gsuH3I2hngHNyuz0I= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.185.72 with SMTP id t50mr4255404wem.77.1282557060032; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 02:51:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.180.73 with HTTP; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 02:50:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:50:59 +0200 Message-ID: From: n dhert To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: memory leak? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:51:01 -0000 After a reboot of my FreeBSD 8.0-p4 system a vmstat shows: Mon Aug 23 08:40:00 CEST 2010 procs memory page disks faults cpu r b w avm fre flt re pi po fr sr da0 pa0 in sy cs us sy id 1 1 0 1515M 7118M 816 5 5 0 726 0 0 0 138 2376 1740 1 2 97 My system had been allocated 8 Gb memory in a Vmware ESXi4 virtual machine. avm = active virtual pages, fre = size of free list 2525M + 7118M is 9600M is this normal? (more than 8 Gb..) six days ago is was: Tue Aug 17 14:15:00 CEST 2010 procs memory page disks faults cpu r b w avm fre flt re pi po fr sr da0 pa0 in sy cs us sy id 3 1 0 2446M 1552M 628 0 0 0 621 6 0 0 30 939 572 1 1 98 but before the reboot it was Mon Aug 23 06:45:00 CEST 2010 procs memory page disks faults cpu r b w avm fre flt re pi po fr sr da0 pa0 in sy cs us sy id 5 22 0 2260M 816M 489 0 0 0 478 2 0 0 27 957 580 1 198 avm + free adds up to only 3 Gb. Where is the rest of the memory ?? Is there a memory leak, how to find what causes the memory leak?