Memory blackhole in 11. Possibly libc.so.7?

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Thu May 29 16:04:47 UTC 2014


On Thursday, May 29, 2014 9:57:22 am Alexander Kabaev wrote:
> On Thu, 29 May 2014 09:08:10 -0400
> John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Thursday, May 29, 2014 5:41:03 am Beeblebrox wrote:
> > > uname: FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #0 r266393M: Sun May 18 13:04:00 2014
> > > amd64 I'm also loading the Radeon_kms modules
> > > 
> <SKIP>
> > > 
> > > I don't know if the lsof dump in single user mode will be of any
> > > help, but it seems like lib/libc.so.7 has something to do with it:
> > 
> > 
> > Why do you think libc.so.7 has anything to do with this?  wired
> > memory is usually only allocated in the kernel, so if anything you
> > are looking at some sort of memory leak in a driver (maybe the radeon
> > driver?)
> > 
> > -- 
> > John Baldwin
> 
> Aren't ZFS buffers accounted as kernel wired memory? 

Ah, yes, using ZFS this might be "normal".

-- 
John Baldwin


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