From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 10 10:15:16 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6E1C1065676 for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 10:15:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rank1seeker@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wg0-f50.google.com (mail-wg0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 377278FC12 for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 10:15:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wgbds11 with SMTP id ds11so2233146wgb.31 for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 03:15:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:from:to:subject:date:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer; bh=7XUPOGCH4BJZEckY1QYzGwbvLEfsWokKrU3SDfbd0GI=; b=0uEGrPh5lpi2JDDsqvv1uklmOKbQOWDCiDY+4+AUkGj+uuu8rAoY3/tdndXYToTD9B 0VUz5D+pIcWyLxlNI/nV39YvV+ms9OGU3+WjaO0mKqgPH1o1s0JffIv2qbEEa6gpKU6Q yZY70iWGgoZxzj9OJfr+g58jVMvc9HOYzTjZrxBWkMavgHq5Ziii6Pqv3hliRGGpL5s+ gYMtjhdPYgLLKnRqyFx9MW4UxUFLofyQjJxWDJohntgir6gxBXHXmWuRQj4PW/Z1bT5N zqKf0Rjuih+jjfj6sBjnk3/ySgf05KqdBEcPyqaRN5zbwLwiv0rTI1ADA5+/y76B39sE TwzA== Received: by 10.180.101.170 with SMTP id fh10mr14800214wib.0.1339323315039; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 03:15:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from DOMYPC ([82.193.208.173]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id fo7sm15794228wib.9.2012.06.10.03.15.12 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 10 Jun 2012 03:15:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20120610.101514.286.4@DOMY-PC> From: rank1seeker@gmail.com To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 12:15:14 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1250" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In-Reply-To: <1339259223.36051.328.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> References: <1339259223.36051.328.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> X-Mailer: POP Peeper (3.8.1.0) Cc: Subject: Re: wired memory - again! 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: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 10:15:16 -0000 ----- Original Message -----=0D=0AFrom: Ian Lepore = =0D=0ATo: Wojciech Puchar = =0D=0ACc: = freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org=0D=0ADate: Sat, 09 Jun 2012 10:27:03 = -0600=0D=0ASubject: Re: wired memory - again!=0D=0A=0D=0A> On Sat, = 2012-06-09 at 09:21 +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:=0D=0A> > top reports = wired memory 128MB=0D=0A> > =0D=0A> > =0D=0A> > WHERE it is used? below = results of vmstat -m and vmstat -z=0D=0A> > values does not sum up even = to half of it=0D=0A> > FreeBSD 9 - few days old.=0D=0A> > =0D=0A> > What = i am missing and why there are SO MUCH wired memory on 1GB machine = =0D=0A> > without X11 or virtualbox=0D=0A> > =0D=0A> > [vmstat output = snipped]=0D=0A> > =0D=0A> =0D=0A> =0D=0A> I have been struggling to = answer the same question for about a week on=0D=0A> our embedded systems = (running 8.2). We have systems with 64MB ram which=0D=0A> have 20MB = wired, and I couldn't find any way to directly view what that=0D=0A> = wired memory is being used for. I also discovered that the vmstat=0D=0A> = output accounted for only a tiny fraction of the 20MB.=0D=0A=0D=0AAngel = dust.=0D=0A=0D=0ALOL!=0D=0A:P=0D=0A=0D=0A=0D=0ADomagoj Smol=E8i=E6