From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 8 12:20:32 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1B4C1065679 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2011 12:20:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-hackers@m.gmane.org) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F7668FC21 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2011 12:20:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PmmYZ-0004M6-3J for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 08 Feb 2011 13:20:31 +0100 Received: from lara.cc.fer.hr ([161.53.72.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 08 Feb 2011 13:20:31 +0100 Received: from ivoras by lara.cc.fer.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 08 Feb 2011 13:20:31 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 13:20:20 +0100 Lines: 9 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: lara.cc.fer.hr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101102 Thunderbird/3.1.6 X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Subject: Analyzing wired memory? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 12:20:32 -0000 Is it possible to track by some way what kernel system, process or thread has wired memory? (including "data exists but needs code to extract it") I'd like to analyze a system where there is a lot of memory wired but not accounted for in the output of vmstat -m and vmstat -z. There are no user processes which would lock memory themselves. Any pointers?