UMA questions
Bosko Milekic
bmilekic at FreeBSD.org
Wed Aug 11 08:29:51 PDT 2004
>1. UMA zones do not show up in the output of 'vmstat -m'. Is there a way
> to get information on how much memory each UMA zone is using?
> Example: "sackhole", "tcptw", ...
vmstat -z, or sysctl vm.zone. Be careful when interpreting the stats
in the Mbuf, Mbuf Cluster, and Packet zones, because they are special.
See www.unixdaemons.com/~bmilekic/netbuf_bmilekic.pdf if you want to
know why, exactly.
>2. What does the flag UMA_ZONE_ZINIT do exactly?
It initializes zone-allocated objects to zero. This happens as objects
are first allocated (i.e., slabs are allocated) and before placement
into the slab cache. Unfortunately, I am not sure this works very well
unless you also make sure to zero them as they are returned (dtor),
which is a shitty model.
>3. What does the flag UMA_ZONE_NOFREE prevent exactly? Will it prevent any
> zone/slab of this type to be free'd ever again? This way the zone can
> only grow and not shrink after transient peaks?
Yes. It prevents freeing/draining of the slab cache.
-Bosko
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