On 1/19/2010 12:01 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:40:50AM -0500, Garrett Moore wrote:
I've been watching my memory usage and I have no idea what is consuming
memory as 'Active'.
Last night I had around 6500MB 'Active' again, 1500MB Wired, no inact, ~30MB
buf, no free, and ~100MB swap used. My performance copying ZFS->ZFS was
again slow (<1MB/s). I tried killing rTorrent and no significant amount of
memory was reclaimed - maybe 100MB. `ps aux` showed no processes using any
significant amount of memory, and I was definitely nowhere near 6500MB
usage.
I tried running the perl oneliner again to hog a bunch of memory, and almost
all of the Active memory was IMMEDIATELY marked as Free, and my performance
was excellent again.
I'm having this same issue, although my performance does not go back to
freshly booted levels it still goes from <1MBs to ~11MB/s after running
that Perl one liner. I'm running RELENG 8 as of about 2 days ago
FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #2 r202777: Fri Jan 22 00:15:43 EST 2010 [...] amd64
Just to be clear it also seems to be related to something rtorrent does
while downloading torrents but it's not rtorrent itself using the memory
because quitting rtorrent doesn't release more than 100MB of multiple GB
of memory marked as active but running the Perl one liner does.
I'm not sure what in userland could be causing the issue. The only things
I've installed are rTorrent, lighttpd, samba, smartmontools, vim, bash,
Python, Perl, and SABNZBd. There is nothing that *should* be consuming any
serious amount of memory.
I've two recommendations:
1) Have you considered "upgrading" to RELENG_8 (e.g. 8.0-STABLE) instead
of sticking with 8.0-RELEASE? There's been a recent MFC to RELENG_8
which pertain to ARC drainage. I'm referring to the commit labelled
revision 1.22.2.2 (RELENG_8):
I definitely have that commit, see above. I just checked my arc size
and it's only using ~170 of a ~600MB limit. This is after running the
Perl script and without the strangely large amount of "active" memory, I
forgot to run on before as well.
This machine is just a personal file server so I can restart it as
needed for testing and I have serial console access to it if needed.
Thanks,
Jonathan
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