Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 14:16:29 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Hoskins <mike@adept.org> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: High wired page count Message-ID: <20030310141014.T25052-100000@snafu.adept.org> In-Reply-To: <20030310193327.GA2736@HAL9000.homeunix.com>
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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). Was it really "paging"? See vmstat(8). > > Having 1/3 of memory wired strikes me as excessive That depends on a lot of things. 4.7-stable, up for ~25 days (last buildworld), 1GB RAM, maxusers=0 (auto-size based on RAM), mostly NFS/CIFS traffic, Mem: 283M Active, 160M Inact, 150M Wired, 8K Cache, 112M Buf, 412M Free vm.stats.vm.v_wire_count: 38295 -mrh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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