On 31 October 2012 11:20, Ian Lepore <free...@damnhippie.dyndns.org> wrote: > I think there are some things we should be investigating about the > growth of memory usage. I just noticed this: > > Freebsd 6.2 on an arm processor: > > 369 root 1 8 -88 1752K 748K nanslp 3:00 0.00% watchdogd > > Freebsd 10.0 on the same system: > > 367 root 1 -52 r0 10232K 10160K nanslp 10:04 0.00% watchdogd > > The 10.0 system is built with MALLOC_PRODUCTION (without that defined > the system won't even boot, it only has 64MB of ram). That's a crazy > amount of growth for a relatively simple daemon.
Would you please, _please_ do some digging into this? It's quite possible there's something in the libraries that are allocating some memory upon first call invocation - yes, that's jemalloc, but it could also be other things like stdio. We really, really need to fix this userland bloat; it's terribly ridiculous at this point. There's no reason a watchdog daemon should take 10megabytes of RAM. Thanks, Adrian _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
