From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 15 23:54:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA14656 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 23:54:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from word.smith.net.au (castles205.castles.com [208.214.165.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA14506 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 23:53:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word.smith.net.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA00475; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 23:59:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Message-Id: <199809160659.XAA00475@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Don Lewis cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wierd kernel memory use statistics In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 15 Sep 1998 21:52:41 PDT." <199809160452.VAA01189@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 23:59:13 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > vmstat -m tells me: > > Memory statistics by type Type Kern > Type InUse MemUse HighUse Limit Requests Limit Limit Size(s) > ... > devbuf 257 181K 181K 10406K 565 0 0 16,32,64,128,256,512,1K,2K,4K,16K,32K > mbuf 1 2K 2K 10406K 1 0 0 2K > temp -9 -19K 1K 10406K 273 0 0 16,32,64,256,512,1K,4K > kld 1 1K 1K 10406K 1 0 0 32 > > The numbers for "temp" look pretty suspicious. Someone is freeing blocks to the M_TEMP pool that were not allocated from it. Does this happen at a reasonable rate? Can you see any other class that looks like it might be leaking? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message