Subject: Re: Memory leak?
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net>
List: current-users
Date: 11/17/1999 21:31:29
Bill Studenmund wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
>
> > The entries which stick out here:
> >
> > Name Size Requests Fail Releases Pgreq Pgrel Npage Hiwat Minpg Maxpg Idle
> > vnodepl 204 182657 0 0 9614 0 9614 9614 0 inf 0
> > ffsinopl 212 969435 0 789589 9492 18 9474 9492 0 inf 0
> >
> > 9614 pages of vnodes? 182657 vnodes? yow.
> >
> > What do you have the kern.maxvnodes sysctl set to?
> >
> > maybe there's a vnode leak?
>
> >From the point of view of this allocator, we never free vnodes since we
> throw them on the free list instead..
>
> Though 182657 of them is a lot!
pstat -v indicates that I have very many active vnodes.
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-- Lennart