From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 16 00:16:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA18816 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 00:16:29 -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 AAA18720 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 00:16:11 -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 AAA00660; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 00:21:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Message-Id: <199809160721.AAA00660@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Don Lewis cc: Mike Smith , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wierd kernel memory use statistics In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 16 Sep 1998 00:05:48 PDT." <199809160705.AAA01526@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 00:21:18 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Sep 15, 11:59pm, Mike Smith wrote: > } Subject: Re: wierd kernel memory use statistics > } > > } > 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? > > The numbers seem to be static. They haven't changed in the last couple > of hours since I rebooted. I've done a make world in the meantime. The > kernel is a fairly fresh and has CAM+softupdates. Sounds like another CAM wrinkle; I expect we're going to see a few of these before the week is out. It shouldn't be particularly harmful - the numbers are just for accounting's sake. -- \\ 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