Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 17:49:04 +0300 From: Anton Sayetsky <vsjcfm@gmail.com> To: Daniel Corbe <corbe@corbe.net> Cc: questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Freeing wired memory Message-ID: <CAFG2KCK8jmu7uwiWQyyrYn71NbgJZ1ckJRb15i=18heDxibfiQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <ygfmw94ov5r.fsf@corbe.net> References: <ygfmw94ov5r.fsf@corbe.net>
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Wired memory = kernel memory 2014-10-10 17:29 GMT+03:00 Daniel Corbe <corbe@corbe.net>: > > There's an application running on one of my hosts which has a memory > leak in it. It ends up consuming a fair chunk of available RAM: > > Mem: 2312M Active, 69M Inact, 13G Wired, 39M Cache, 1684M Buf, 354M Free > > My understanding is Wired memory is memory that may not necessarily be > in use but it is reserved for applications that either have at one point > needed it or may need it in the future. > > I'll kill the app in another few days or so because calls to malloc() > will begin to fail across the board. > > But my main problem right now is I usually have to reboot the box > because killing the app and restarting it does NOT return any memory to > the free pool. > > The step I'd like to avoid here is rebooting the box. > > So I'm obviously missing something. > > -Daniel > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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