Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 15:38:13 +0400 From: Konstantin <k.shesternin@gmail.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: Daniel Corbe <corbe@corbe.net> Subject: Re: Freeing wired memory Message-ID: <CAFUX6yJc9Juw_7Buji=K8Y8_WuBxatD1OrNHiXf3ZToYwQagUg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1410130946450.21211@sta1.canmos.ru> References: <ygfmw94ov5r.fsf@corbe.net> <Pine.LNX.4.64.1410130946450.21211@sta1.canmos.ru>
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2014-10-13 9:52 GMT+04:00 Igor V. Ruzanov <igorr@canmos.ru>: > As said Anton aerlier, wired its kernel memory. So called unpageble > regions "living" in a RAM (physical memory). > > | > |There's an application running on one of my hosts which has a memory > |leak in it. It ends up consuming a fair chunk of available RAM: > | > |Mem: 2312M Active, 69M Inact, 13G Wired, 39M Cache, 1684M Buf, 354M Free > | > |My understanding is Wired memory is memory that may not necessarily be > |in use but it is reserved for applications that either have at one point > |needed it or may need it in the future. > | > |I'll kill the app in another few days or so because calls to malloc() > |will begin to fail across the board. > | > |But my main problem right now is I usually have to reboot the box > |because killing the app and restarting it does NOT return any memory to > |the free pool. > | > |The step I'd like to avoid here is rebooting the box. > | > |So I'm obviously missing something. > | > |-Daniel > |_______________________________________________ > |freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > |http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > |To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > | > > +-------------------------------------------+ > ! CANMOS ISP Network ! > +-------------------------------------------+ > ! Best regards ! > ! Igor V. Ruzanov, network operational staff! > ! e-Mail: igorr@canmos.ru ! > +-------------------------------------------+ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Hi. It looks like zfs ARC.
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