Subject: Re: Kernel resident memory size is quite large
To: None <port-amd64@netbsd.org>
From: None <antiright@gmail.com>
List: port-amd64
Date: 04/03/2006 18:09:41
> Memory: 452M Act, 151M Inact, 5252K Wired, 21M Exec, 484M File, 54M Free
>
> PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND
> 11 root 18 0 0K 230M syncer 3:30 0.00% 0.00% [ioflush]
> 2 root 10 0 0K 230M usbevt 0:00 0.00% 0.00% [usb0]
> 3 root 10 0 0K 230M usbtsk 0:00 0.00% 0.00% [usbtask]
> 4 root 10 0 0K 230M usbevt 0:00 0.00% 0.00% [usb1]
> 5 root -6 0 0K 230M atath 0:00 0.00% 0.00% [atabus0]
> 6 root -6 0 0K 230M atath 0:00 0.00% 0.00% [atabus1]
> 7 root -6 0 0K 230M atath 0:00 0.00% 0.00% [atabus2]
> 8 root -6 0 0K 230M atath 0:00 0.00% 0.00% [atabus3]
> 9 root -6 0 0K 230M sccomp 0:00 0.00% 0.00% [atapibus0]
> 0 root -18 0 0K 230M schedule 0:00 0.00% 0.00% [swapper]
> 10 root -18 0 0K 230M pgdaemon 0:00 0.00% 0.00% [pagedaemon]
> 12 root -18 0 0K 230M aiodoned 0:00 0.00% 0.00% [aiodoned]
Has anyone else experienced such a large resident memory size, as used by
kernel processes? If other people are claiming that such processes on
their amd64 boxes consume only ~8MB, then I am concerned.
-Jeff