Re: Growth in pool usage between netbsd-9 and -10?

[Paul Ripke <stix%stix.id.au@localhost>]

I need to read more code to see when the pools decide to release idle
pages - because this is remarkably wasteful considering my machine is
also paging, and "only" has 16GiB RAM.

Memory resource pool statistics
Name        Size Requests Fail Releases Pgreq Pgrel Npage Hiwat Minpg Maxpg Idle
buf2k       2048   830780    0   617706 207284 85623 121661 172466  0   inf 6948
vcachepl     640 44075984    0 43266390 5228141 5012754 215387 704585 0 inf 3547
pcgnormal    320 23415927 32666190 23388721 1050250 1045247 5003 89205 0 inf 2425
ffsdino2     264 43386098    0 42621716 1690136 1577576 112560 281810 0 inf 2185
ffsino       280 43312409    0 42548027 1850682 1733882 116800 301939 0 inf 2143
ractx         40  6888877    0  6846710 41237 37592  3645  4679     0   inf 1780
bufpl        280   557611    0   239663 31776   559 31217 31296     0   inf 1362
buf16k      16896  431232    0   350158 52798 21935 30863 32706     0   inf  942
mclpl       2048   120600    0   119876 32540 31337  1203  5270     0 261333 841
pvpage      4096    61134    3    53585 40271 32334  7937 12454     0   inf  388
mbpl         520   205550    0   204337 13673 12993   680  3049     0   inf  362
pcglarge    1088   844473    0   825312 88124 81378  6746  9809     0   inf  359
buf4k       4096    28406    0    25833  5510  2654  2856  4001     0   inf  283
...
Totals           1937415183 32666228 1927493251 11060670 10142826 917844

In use 3585418K, total allocated 5569236K; utilization 64.4%

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Paul Ripke
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