From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 8 13:47:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA13841 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 13:47:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from implode.root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA13836 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 13:47:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA23046; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 13:48:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199710082048.NAA23046@implode.root.com> To: sthaug@nethelp.no cc: gordon@drogon.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wheres all my memory going? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 08 Oct 1997 19:16:24 +0200." <2042.876330984@verdi.nethelp.no> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Wed, 08 Oct 1997 13:48:16 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> but what's quite unusual is the size of your named process: >> >> UID PID PPID CPU PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TT TIME COMMAND >> 0 287 1 9 2 0 290060 840 select Ss ?? 237:40.19 named >> >> ...almost 300MB of virtual memory? Wow! I'd ask just what you were >> primary/secondary for, but I don't think I want to know. :-) > >He said he was trying to run a top-level-domain nameserver. If that means >he includes the RRs for COM (and EDU, and NET) like some of the root >servers do, I'm not the least bit surprised about this size. Consider: Ahh...I missed that part. Yes, this makes sense then. That also explains the large number of network buffers (from nameserver queries). The strange thing is that the server got almost completely paged out...I wonder if named forked some children to do the zone transfers and I wonder if this is what caused the main server to be pushed out. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project