wired memory - again!

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----- Original Message -----
From: Ian Lepore <freebsd at damnhippie.dyndns.org>
To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
Cc: freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2012 10:27:03 -0600
Subject: Re: wired memory - again!

> On Sat, 2012-06-09 at 09:21 +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > top reports wired memory 128MB
> > 
> > 
> > WHERE it is used? below results of vmstat -m and vmstat -z
> > values does not sum up even to half of it
> > FreeBSD 9 - few days old.
> > 
> > What i am missing and why there are SO MUCH wired memory on 1GB machine 
> > without X11 or virtualbox
> > 
> >  [vmstat output snipped]
> > 
> 
> 
> I have been struggling to answer the same question for about a week on
> our embedded systems (running 8.2).  We have systems with 64MB ram which
> have 20MB wired, and I couldn't find any way to directly view what that
> wired memory is being used for.  I also discovered that the vmstat
> output accounted for only a tiny fraction of the 20MB.

Angel dust.

LOL!
:P


Domagoj Smolčić