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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
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What CLI command (if any) did you use to get those memory stats ? TIA ....


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