Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 11:33:27 -0800 From: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: High wired page count Message-ID: <20030310193327.GA2736@HAL9000.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20030308112551.GA202@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> References: <20030308112551.GA202@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>
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Thus spake Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>: > 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
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