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Date:      Sun, 13 Sep 2009 12:58:42 -0500
From:      Richard Todd <rmtodd@ichotolot.servalan.com>
To:        Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: virtualbox: out of memory on start [Was: DRI initialiazation fails on 8.0-BETAx/M54]
Message-ID:  <x73a6qafql.fsf@ichotolot.servalan.com>
In-Reply-To: <servalan.mailinglist.fbsd-current/4AACA736.5010405@freebsd.org> (Andriy Gapon's message of "Sun, 13 Sep 2009 11:03:02 %2B0300")
References:  <4A9D7560.7060902@freebsd.org> <1251840705.1689.4440.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <4A9E7B42.9070608@icyb.net.ua> <4AACA736.5010405@freebsd.org>

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Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> writes:

> This machine has 4GB of RAM and only a handful of applications are started (but
> in KDE4). But memory usage line from top looks suspicious:
> Mem: 1439M Active, 199M Inact, 1308M Wired, 669M Cache, 392M Buf, 61M Free
> Wired is huge, Buf and Cache are also substantial.
> Maybe something to do with ZFS?

ZFS allocates its cache out of kernel memory space, so yeah, all the ZFS
cache will show up under "Wired" and there's usually a lot of it.  




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