Subject: Re: Memory leak?
To: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/17/1999 12:21:15
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!

Take care,

Bill