Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 15:22:12 +1000 From: Andrew Snow <andrew@modulus.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some odd behaviour of vmstat and vmtotal... Message-ID: <48195384.5030204@modulus.org> In-Reply-To: <20080501045736.GU30325@elvis.mu.org> References: <m2lk2ultc1.wl%gnn@neville-neil.com> <20080501045736.GU30325@elvis.mu.org>
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> In deploying 7.0 at work we were finding a persistent problem when > running "vmstat 1" on systems. The problem shows up as a 10ms "pause" > in processing, usually packet stamping and forwarding by a user level > process. Thats interesting. I once did some quick and dirty profiling of vmtotal and found it runs extremely quickly. Are you running on slow machines (embedded perhaps)? Or do you have a situation where you perhaps have alot more VM objects created than normal? I can't think of a good example where this would be the case.. - Andrew
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