I was interested in what this was doing, but didn't find the link working. I did find it at:
https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg14241.html Ben On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Nils Goroll <[email protected]> wrote: > Apologies for this being off-topic in the strict sense, but this > mailinglist > probably has a relatively high proportion of people sharing my fate and > having > to manage o****e systems: > > It is now 7 months that Robert has marked > https://www.illumos.org/issues/3925 > as fixed (THANK YOU, Robert!) but the issue still exists in current s11 > (afaik > their bug is 7143346) - and my old workaround does not work any more. > > I would like to share the result of two hours work to hopefully safe a > similar > amount for someone else. It also contains a brief explanation. > > #!/bin/bash > > ## reclaim memory from kmem caches > ## workaround for issue documented here > ## > ## > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/networking-discuss/2012-February/014357.html > ## > ## update 20140227 [email protected]: > ## somewhen between 151.0.1.12 and 11.1 oracle has changed the code calling > ## kmem_cache_reap such that it will not get called any more if only > freemem > ## is lower than lotsfree. I don't know what the best way is to do achieve > ## ip_dce_reclaim getting called, but there is a new condition in > ip_dce_reclaim_stack > ## to only do the full cleanup if lotsfree + needfree > freemem, and > ## setting needfree > freemen - lotsfree does the job > ## > ## because freemem may change at any time, we add a little 0x20 extra > ## to our needfree. > > ndd -set /dev/ip ip_dce_reclaim_fraction 1 > { > echo '%/l/needfree >oldneedfree' > echo 'needfree/Z ((%/l/freemem)-(%/l/lotsfree)+20)' > sleep 2 > echo 'needfree/Z <oldneedfree' > } | exec mdb -kw > > > ------------------------------------------- > illumos-discuss > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now > RSS Feed: > https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/24641149-62d824c4 > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
