From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Mar 10 11:33:30 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D873037B401 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 11:33:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from HAL9000.homeunix.com (12-233-57-224.client.attbi.com [12.233.57.224]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3294E43F75 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 11:33:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from das@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from HAL9000.homeunix.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by HAL9000.homeunix.com (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h2AJXRIX002802; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 11:33:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from das@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: (from das@localhost) by HAL9000.homeunix.com (8.12.6/8.12.5/Submit) id h2AJXREQ002801; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 11:33:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from das@FreeBSD.ORG) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 11:33:27 -0800 From: David Schultz To: Peter Jeremy Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: High wired page count Message-ID: <20030310193327.GA2736@HAL9000.homeunix.com> Mail-Followup-To: Peter Jeremy , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20030308112551.GA202@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030308112551.GA202@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thus spake Peter Jeremy : > I just happened to have a close look at the memory usage figures on > various -STABLE machines and noticed that all of them are reporting > vm.stats.vm.v_wire_count roughly 1/3 of total RAM. (My look was > triggered by the sound of my firewall paging when I sent a query to > its named). > > Having 1/3 of memory wired strikes me as excessive That's normal. Most of the wired memory is being used by the kernel for things like network buffers and page tables, which can be quite large. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message