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Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Analyzing wired memory?
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On Tue, 8 Feb 2011, Alan Cox wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 6:20 AM, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> 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")
>>
> No.
>
>
>> 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?
>>
> Have you accounted for the buffer cache?

John and I have occasionally talked about making procstat -v work on the 
kernel; conceivably it could also export a wired page count for mappings where 
it makes sense.  Ideally procstat would drill in a bit and allow you to see 
things at least at the granularty of "this page range was allocated to UMA".

Robert