Re: FYI; 14.3: A discord report of Wired Memory growing to 17 GiBytes over something like 60 days; ARC shrinks to, say, 1942 MiBytes

On Aug 16, 2025, at 22:13, Rick Macklem <rick.macklem@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Rick Macklem <rick.macklem_at_gmail.com> wrote on
>> Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2025 23:43:11 UTC :
>> 
>>> On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 4:24 AM Jan Martin Mikkelsen
>>> <janm@transactionware.com> wrote:
>>>> . . .
>>> The original report was for 14.3. Of course, they may have experienced
>>> something different than what you did.
>>> (I tried to look at whatever it was on the discord channel, but got
>>> nothing useful,
>>> just some sort of "welcome to discord..." message.)
>> 
>> Yea, discord is a need-to-login type of context. If
>> one is unlikely to want to establish such a login,
>> such discord URLs should likely be ignored. (I
>> originally established a login in order to get to
>> Solid Run's support for their HoneyComb [aarch64
>> based].)
> I do have a discord login (for the NFSv4 bakeathons),

Ahh, so, ignoring my URL copy/paste, go to the
FreeBSD storage channel. Go to the first 2025-Aug-11 or
so "notafet" message, 12:36 AM shows here, but that is
likely local time. My note about posting to the list
follows, locally showing 1:20 PM.

The last related message shows here as on 2025-Aug-13
at 11:07 PM and was by me.

(So, I've learned that also providing instructions for
finding discord content can be appropriate.)

> but when I click on what is in your original post, it just
> says something about downloading an app and no text
> channels.

My normal desktop environment is macOS. In that environment,
when I click on the link, the Safari Web Browser opens
to a login page. Part of the notation shown is:

https://discord.com/login?redirect_to=%2Fchannels%2

Logging in takes to me to:

https://discord.com/channels/727023752348434432/757305697527398481/1404367777904463914

which displays the FreeBSD storage channel with the message
that I was referencing.

It does not use the installed discord application, which
is how I normally deal with discord. I get no prompt about
downloading an app.

Using the URL that it takes me to instead as the way to
start also goes through the login sequence and takes me
to the same place via the same URL.

My normal FreeBSD context is console (serial when available)
and ssh. No graphical UI.

> rick
> 
>> 
>> As for the specific report, some of the information
>> was presented with images, making for a not great
>> fit for the mail-list. Thus the URL usage for those
>> that could readily use it.
>> 
>> So far, it has turned out that the message to the
>> mail-list mostly has prompted other leaks to be
>> found and fixed. Not bad for unintended
>> consequences.
>> 
>>> I do hope that Peter can try 14.3 and determine if he still sees the problem
>>> he reported.



===
Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com