Invalid memory stats from vmstat and sysctl vm.vmtotal?

2011-11-30 Thread Steven Hartland
We're seeing some impossible memory usage stats reported on machines here from vmstat and sysctl vm.vmtotal. We have machines reporting to be using 31GB total when they only have 8GB physical and are not using any swap. Here's an output from one of our machines:- vmstat -c 2 -w 1 -n 0 procs

Re: sysctl description spillover and also setting the sysctl ?

2011-11-30 Thread John Baldwin
On Friday, November 25, 2011 2:36:30 am Jason Hellenthal wrote: > > Found a troubling result of the following and figured someone might want to take a look. > > Pay close attention to the output and behavior. > > sysctl net.inet.udp.blackhole=0 > sysctl net.inet.udp.blackhole > sysctl -d net.in

Re: sysctl description spillover and also setting the sysctl ?

2011-11-30 Thread Jason Hellenthal
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:52:46AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > On Friday, November 25, 2011 2:36:30 am Jason Hellenthal wrote: > > > > Found a troubling result of the following and figured someone might want to > take a look. > > > > Pay close attention to the output and behavior. > > > > sy

[CFT] pkgng alpha2

2011-11-30 Thread Julien Laffaye
Hi all, We are releasing pkgng (the next pkg_install) alpha2 to the world and we want you to test it! There is no "good" method to test it: use it as you would in the real world. Of course, you are encouraged to backup your data or test it in some kind of virtualized environment. After using it

Re: sysctl description spillover and also setting the sysctl ?

2011-11-30 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 11/30/11 7:48 PM, Jason Hellenthal wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:52:46AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: >> On Friday, November 25, 2011 2:36:30 am Jason Hellenthal wrote: >>> >>> Found a troubling result of the following and figured someone might want to >> take a look. >>> >>> Pay cl

Re: sysctl description spillover and also setting the sysctl ?

2011-11-30 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 11/30/11 7:48 PM, Jason Hellenthal wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:52:46AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: >> On Friday, November 25, 2011 2:36:30 am Jason Hellenthal wrote: >>> >>> Found a troubling result of the following and figured someone might want to >> take a look. >>> >>> Pay cl

Re: Invalid memory stats from vmstat and sysctl vm.vmtotal?

2011-11-30 Thread Jason Hellenthal
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:39:10PM -, Steven Hartland wrote: > We're seeing some impossible memory usage stats reported on machines > here from vmstat and sysctl vm.vmtotal. > > We have machines reporting to be using 31GB total when they only have > 8GB physical and are not using any swap. >