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