From netbsd-current-users  Wed Nov 17 20:31:29 1999
From: Lennart Augustsson <lennart () augustsson ! net>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 20:31:29 +0000
To: netbsd-current-users
Subject: Re: Memory leak?
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=netbsd-current-users&m=94287292214913

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