Threaded 6.4 code compiled under 9.0 uses a lot more memory?..

Adrian Chadd adrian at freebsd.org
Wed Oct 31 20:38:42 UTC 2012


On 31 October 2012 12:06, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Watchdogd was recently changed to mlock its memory. This is the cause
> of the RSS increase.
>
> If not wired, swapout might cause a delay of the next pat, leading to
> panic.

Right, but look at the virtual size of the 6.4 process. It's not 10
megabytes at all. Even if you wired all of that into memory, it
wouldn't be 10 megabytes.



Adrian


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