Analyzing wired memory?

Alan Cox alan.l.cox at gmail.com
Tue Feb 8 15:04:50 UTC 2011


On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 6:20 AM, Ivan Voras <ivoras at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Is it possible to track by some way what kernel system, process or thread
> has wired memory? (including "data exists but needs code to extract it")
>
>
No.


> I'd like to analyze a system where there is a lot of memory wired but not
> accounted for in the output of vmstat -m and vmstat -z. There are no user
> processes which would lock memory themselves.
>
> Any pointers?
>
>
Have you accounted for the buffer cache?

Alan


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