ZFS and Wired memory, again

[Mark Felder]

On Fri, Feb 28, 2014, at 13:43, Adam Vande More wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Mark Felder <feld at freebsd.org> wrote:
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> > >
> > >
> > > Without question, cron could do it.
> > >
> >
> > I can't see cron using kernel memory; that just doesn't make sense to
> > me. Not even the periodic scripts that cron executes should be able to
> > balloon kernel like that.
> >
> > I think I know what meant to infer though -- that some nonstandard cron
> > script is doing something ugly.
> 
> 
>  He's running 150 TB on 3 GB of mem.  Periodic I think could consume that
> alone.
> 

Which periodic script are you referring to? The daily security check? I
suppose I could see resource usage increase after checking for new
setuid bits... assuming he had a lot of files to crawl through. But I
don't actually know if that would do much to wired memory.