> Thus spake Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I just happened to have a close look at the memory usage figures on > > various -STABLE machines and noticed that all of them are reporting > > vm.stats.vm.v_wire_count roughly 1/3 of total RAM. (My look was > > triggered by the sound of my firewall paging when I sent a query to > > its named).
Was it really "paging"? See vmstat(8). > > Having 1/3 of memory wired strikes me as excessive That depends on a lot of things. 4.7-stable, up for ~25 days (last buildworld), 1GB RAM, maxusers=0 (auto-size based on RAM), mostly NFS/CIFS traffic, Mem: 283M Active, 160M Inact, 150M Wired, 8K Cache, 112M Buf, 412M Free vm.stats.vm.v_wire_count: 38295 -mrh To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
