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Date:      Fri, 3 Sep 1999 14:24:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Alex Varju <varju@webct.com>
To:        "Viren R. Shah" <viren@rstcorp.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: rpc.statd -- memory hog?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909031416580.47622-100000@ws15.webct.com>
In-Reply-To: <14288.7794.1975.690537@jabberwock.rstcorp.com>

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I actually have noticed this exact same problem on some of our machines.
I found a reference to it in the freebsd-questions archive:

ttp://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1683401+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/1999/freebsd-questions/19990221.freebsd-questions

> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 12:10:31 -0600
> From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
> 
> In the last episode (Feb 25), Mike Knoll said:
> > I have rpc.statd running on a 3.1-RELEASE machine, and it shows a
> > virtual size of 263megs.  Is something wrong in my configuration? 
> > Everything works fine, but this is an insane amount of memory to be
> > resonable.
> > 
> > My 2.2.8-RELEASE machine does not do this.
> > 
> > ps -axl
> >     0  7316     1   0   2  0 262968  552 select Is    ??    0:00.00 rpc.statd
> 
> I think I remember reading about this a while back, and the culprit is
> the mmap() that rpc.statd does.  It definitely does not use that much
> memory.  A ps on a 2.2.8 prints reasonable numbers.

Alex.

-- 
alex varju <varju@webct.com>
just a guy
ult canada

On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Viren R. Shah wrote:

> 
> We are running an NFS server (3.2-STABLE from July 29). It only allows
> v2/UDP connections.
> 
> I just looked at the ps output for rpc.statd and saw:
> 
> USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS  TT  STAT STARTED      TIME  COMMAND
> root       156  0.0  0.2 262968  256  ??  Is   Mon05PM   0:00.21 rpc.statd
> 
> The box has only been up for:
> 
>  3:13PM  up 3 days, 22:01, 9 users, load averages: 0.08, 0.15, 0.07
> 
> [It also serves only about a dozen clients]
> 
> 
> Is there a reason why it should be taking up that much memory (even
> though it's all virtual memory, and it's residential size is only 256)
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Viren
> 




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