Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 09:04:48 -0600 From: Alan Cox <alan.l.cox@gmail.com> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Analyzing wired memory? Message-ID: <AANLkTikNw4G7MDHwCAmxfzFGUBxQb1S9pUjTM_-g3K%2By@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <iirce4$urj$1@dough.gmane.org> References: <iirce4$urj$1@dough.gmane.org>
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On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 6:20 AM, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> wrote: > Is it possible to track by some way what kernel system, process or thread > has wired memory? (including "data exists but needs code to extract it") > > No. > I'd like to analyze a system where there is a lot of memory wired but not > accounted for in the output of vmstat -m and vmstat -z. There are no user > processes which would lock memory themselves. > > Any pointers? > > Have you accounted for the buffer cache? Alan
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