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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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