rpc.lockd

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Wed Apr 30 09:35:47 PDT 2003


In the last episode (Apr 30), Sparrevohn, Thomas said:
> After changing my FS to UFS2 yesterday I saw strange behaviour from
> rpc.statd and rpc.lockd - The statd process grew to 256MB in size.
> There are memory leaks some where in the 5.0-Release with UFS2 that I
> did not see with UFS1 - It seems that inactive pages are never
> reclaimed and on a 1GB system during a make world I ended up with 8MB
> free.

rpc.statd is always that size; you probably never noticed it before.  It
mmaps a 256MB window, but only uses a couple KB of it.

http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#STATD-MEM-LEAK

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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