Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 10:21:08 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freeing wired memory Message-ID: <5437F964.7000109@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <ygfmw94ov5r.fsf@corbe.net> References: <ygfmw94ov5r.fsf@corbe.net>
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On 10/10/14 09:29, Daniel Corbe wrote: > 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" > What CLI command (if any) did you use to get those memory stats ? TIA .... -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.
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