Re: ZFS committed to the FreeBSD base.

On Wed, 2 May 2007, Robert Watson wrote:
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>
> Historically, such panics have been a result of one of two things:
>
> (1) An immediate resource leak in UMA(9) or malloc(9) allocated memory.
>
> (2) Mis-tuning of a resource limit, perhaps due to sizing the limit based on
>    solely physical memory size, not taking available kernel address space
>    into account.
>
> mti_stats reports only on malloc(9), you need to also look at uma(9), since 
> many frequently allocated types are allocated directly with the slab 
> allocator, and not from kernel malloc.  Take a look at the output of "show 
> uma" or "show malloc" in DDB, or respectively "vmstat -z" and "vmstat -m" on 
> a core or on a live system.  malloc(9) is actually implemented using two 
> different back-ends: UMA-managed fixed size memory buckets for small 
> allocations, and direct page allocation for large allocations.

Ok, it does appear I'm leaking NAMEIs. "vmstat -z", which I didn't know
about, was the trick. Handling lookup name buffers is also port specific,
so it wouldn't have shown up in the other ports.

So, forget what I said w.r.t. a MALLOC bug and thanks for the help. I
should be able to locate the leak pretty easily with "vmstat -z".

Thanks, rick