Re: CURRENT: memory leak?

From: Allan Jude <allanjude_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 15:03:04 -0400
On 2016-07-29 14:04, O. Hartmann wrote:
>
> I realise an exorbitant memory usage of FreeBSD CURRENT ( FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT #16
> r303470: Fri Jul 29 05:58:42 CEST 2016 ). Swap space gets eaten up while building
> world/kernel and/or ports very quickly.
>
> I see this phenomenon on different CURRENT systems with different RAM (but all ZFS!). No
> box is less than 8 GB RAM: one 8GB, another 16, two 32 GB. An older XEON Core2Duo server
> with postgresql 9.5/postgis acting on some OSM data etas up all of its 32 GB and
> additional 48GB swap - never seen before with 11-CURRENT.
>
> I didn't investigate the problem so far since I realized this memory hunger of 12-CURRENT
> just today on several boxes compiling world, eating up all the memory, staring swapping
> and never relax even after hours from the swapped memory.
>
> Is this a known phenomenon or am I seeing something mystique?
>
> Regards,
>
> Oliver
>

Do you have the output of 'top', the first few lines

Specifically, is there very high 'Other' usage, on the ZFS ARC line?

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Allan Jude
Received on Fri Jul 29 2016 - 17:03:13 UTC

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