Re: initialize msdosfs on memory stick?

2013-09-12 Thread Gary Aitken
On 09/12/13 20:58, Warren Block wrote: > On Thu, 12 Sep 2013, Gary Aitken wrote: > >> On 09/12/13 17:52, Warren Block wrote: >>> On Thu, 12 Sep 2013, Gary Aitken wrote: >>> >>>> I can't seem to find how to do this in the handbook or man pages. I >

Re: initialize msdosfs on memory stick?

2013-09-12 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 12 Sep 2013, Gary Aitken wrote: On 09/12/13 17:52, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 12 Sep 2013, Gary Aitken wrote: I can't seem to find how to do this in the handbook or man pages. I need to initialize a usb memory stick with an msdos file system. Is it possible, or do I have to f

Re: initialize msdosfs on memory stick?

2013-09-12 Thread Gary Aitken
On 09/12/13 17:52, Warren Block wrote: > On Thu, 12 Sep 2013, Gary Aitken wrote: > >> I can't seem to find how to do this in the handbook or man pages. I >> need to initialize a usb memory stick with an msdos file system. Is >> it possible, or do I have to find a wi

Re: initialize msdosfs on memory stick?

2013-09-12 Thread Fbsd8
ize a usb memory stick with an msdos file system. Is it possible, or do I have to find a windoze system? It is possible. The OS provides the newfs_msdos tool. There is no need to deal with "Windows" for this task. Great, thanks. I checked the newfs manpage but didn't look too carefu

Re: initialize msdosfs on memory stick?

2013-09-12 Thread Gary Aitken
es. >>>> I need to initialize a usb memory stick with an msdos file system. >>>> Is it possible, or do I have to find a windoze system? >>> >>> It is possible. The OS provides the newfs_msdos tool. >>> There is no need to deal with "Windows&

Re: initialize msdosfs on memory stick?

2013-09-12 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 12 Sep 2013, Gary Aitken wrote: I can't seem to find how to do this in the handbook or man pages. I need to initialize a usb memory stick with an msdos file system. Is it possible, or do I have to find a windoze system? Sure, it's possible. For maximum compatibility, I

Re: initialize msdosfs on memory stick?

2013-09-12 Thread Gary Aitken
On 09/12/13 15:51, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 15:39:26 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: >> I can't seem to find how to do this in the handbook or man pages. >> I need to initialize a usb memory stick with an msdos file system. >> Is it possible, or do I have to find

Re: initialize msdosfs on memory stick?

2013-09-12 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 15:39:26 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: > I can't seem to find how to do this in the handbook or man pages. > I need to initialize a usb memory stick with an msdos file system. > Is it possible, or do I have to find a windoze system? It is possible. The OS provides t

Re: initialize msdosfs on memory stick?

2013-09-12 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 16:13:11 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: > On 09/12/13 15:51, Polytropon wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 15:39:26 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: > >> I can't seem to find how to do this in the handbook or man pages. > >> I need to initialize a usb memory

initialize msdosfs on memory stick?

2013-09-12 Thread Gary Aitken
I can't seem to find how to do this in the handbook or man pages. I need to initialize a usb memory stick with an msdos file system. Is it possible, or do I have to find a windoze system? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: memory stick

2013-08-08 Thread Teske, Devin
(sorry for top post) Heh, looks like the Alton Brown style of debugging ;D (for anyone that follows his twitter feed) -- Devin On Aug 8, 2013, at 7:34 AM, william benton wrote: > I am trying to mount a memory stick at the command line. I seem to be able to > mount and unmount it but i

Re: memory stick

2013-08-08 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 9:34 AM, william benton wrote: > I am trying to mount a memory stick at the command line. I seem to be able > to mount and unmount it but i can't copy files into the stick. please see > the attached image for the commands I used and the results. I

memory stick

2013-08-08 Thread william benton
I am trying to mount a memory stick at the command line. I seem to be able to mount and unmount it but i can't copy files into the stick. please see the attached image for the commands I used and the results. If you have any suggestions on what the problem might be I would sure like to

Re: Is this a memory error?

2013-07-06 Thread jb
Dennis Glatting pki2.com> writes: > > Is this message indicating I have a memory error? I'm seeing this > message across two systems, one below: > > FreeBSD mc 9.1-STABLE FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE #0 r252678: Thu Jul 4 03:47:52 > PDT 2013 root mc:/usr/obj/disk-1/src/sy

Is this a memory error?

2013-07-06 Thread Dennis Glatting
Is this message indicating I have a memory error? I'm seeing this message across two systems, one below: FreeBSD mc 9.1-STABLE FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE #0 r252678: Thu Jul 4 03:47:52 PDT 2013 root@mc:/usr/obj/disk-1/src/sys/SMUNI amd64 Jul 4 15:11:10 mc kernel: MCA: Bank 2, S

Re: what commands show memory usage

2013-05-14 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 05/14/2013 08:56 PM, Joe wrote: Tim Daneliuk wrote: On 05/14/2013 08:32 PM, Joe wrote: When stopping vnet jails get message about lost memory pages. What console commands show available memory pages so I can determine the lost memory pages after 100 stopped jails? Want to find out if that

what commands show memory usage

2013-05-14 Thread Joe
When stopping vnet jails get message about lost memory pages. What console commands show available memory pages so I can determine the lost memory pages after 100 stopped jails? Want to find out if that lost memory page message is bogus or not. Thanks

Re: IPC Shared memory segment

2013-03-20 Thread Vagner
The solution was given at revision 233760. Link for description: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=233760 Thanks to all! -- Respectfully, Stanislav Putrya System administrator FotoStrana.Ru Ltd. ICQ IM: 328585847 Jabber-GoogleTalk: root.vagner mob.phone SPB: +79215788755 mob.p

Re: IPC Shared memory segment

2013-03-19 Thread Julien Cigar
On 03/19/2013 13:06, Vagner wrote: Hi all! Tell me please, how may I remove shared memory segment like this: T:m shmid:65537 shmkey:0 mode:--rw-rw-rw- owner:root group:wheel creator:root cgroup:wheel NATTCH:2 SEGSZ:1048576000 CPID:2982 LPID:54375 ATIME:10:29:12 DTIME:15:56:14 CTIME:10:51:00

IPC Shared memory segment

2013-03-19 Thread Vagner
Hi all! Tell me please, how may I remove shared memory segment like this: T:m shmid:65537 shmkey:0 mode:--rw-rw-rw- owner:root group:wheel creator:root cgroup:wheel NATTCH:2 SEGSZ:1048576000 CPID:2982 LPID:54375 ATIME:10:29:12 DTIME:15:56:14 CTIME:10:51:00 Pid 2982 and pid 54375 is killed

Re: process eating up all memory - what should happen next?

2013-03-07 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 7/3/2013 12:17 μμ, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 7 Mar 2013 10:01:03 GMT, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I have a process that eats up al memory, in my case science/paraview if I try to analyse a large model. What should FreeBSD do when a process tries to use all RAM or more? In this case, the swap

Re: process eating up all memory - what should happen next?

2013-03-07 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 7 Mar 2013 10:01:03 GMT, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > I have a process that eats up al memory, > in my case science/paraview if I try to > analyse a large model. What should FreeBSD > do when a process tries to use all RAM or more? In this case, the swap space would be use

process eating up all memory - what should happen next?

2013-03-07 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I have a process that eats up al memory, in my case science/paraview if I try to analyse a large model. What should FreeBSD do when a process tries to use all RAM or more? I my case I get a complete freeze, can't even login from the console, and requiring a cold reboot. I guess this i

Re: Tuning ZFS ARC for 512GB Memory

2013-03-05 Thread Gezeala M . Bacuño II
. On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Reed A. Cartwright wrote: > I have a 512GB memory system that has a 480GB (or so) L2ARC, and a > raidz2 storage pool. No dedup or compression is enabled. Although, I > will enable compression in the future. > > By default vfs.zfs.arc_max is abou

Tuning ZFS ARC for 512GB Memory

2013-03-05 Thread Reed A. Cartwright
I have a 512GB memory system that has a 480GB (or so) L2ARC, and a raidz2 storage pool. No dedup or compression is enabled. Although, I will enable compression in the future. By default vfs.zfs.arc_max is about 300GB and the L2ARC is hardly touched. I've seen a couple hints recently o

Re: Limiting jail CPU & memory resources

2013-03-01 Thread Fbsd8
Mark Felder wrote: On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 09:52:41 -0600, wrote: Read that all ready and left me with more question than answers. Its experimental and has to be compiled into the kernel. Need solutions that are provided as part of the base system. Such as a loadable kernel module. Can not be ris

Re: Limiting jail CPU & memory resources

2013-03-01 Thread Mark Felder
On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 09:52:41 -0600, wrote: Read that all ready and left me with more question than answers. Its experimental and has to be compiled into the kernel. Need solutions that are provided as part of the base system. Such as a loadable kernel module. Can not be risking the security of

Re: Limiting jail CPU & memory resources

2013-03-01 Thread Fbsd8
Mark Felder wrote: On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 08:38:05 -0600, wrote: Is there anything in 9.1 to Limit jail CPU & memory resources? https://wiki.freebsd.org/Hierarchical_Resource_Limits Read that all ready and left me with more question than answers. Its experimental and has to be compiled

Re: Limiting jail CPU & memory resources

2013-03-01 Thread Mark Felder
On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 08:38:05 -0600, wrote: Is there anything in 9.1 to Limit jail CPU & memory resources? https://wiki.freebsd.org/Hierarchical_Resource_Limits ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/list

Limiting jail CPU & memory resources

2013-03-01 Thread Fbsd8
Is there anything in 9.1 to Limit jail CPU & memory resources? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Reduce the consumption of video memory

2013-01-05 Thread jb
Dima Naumov gmail.com> writes: > > Can i reduce using of video memory in xorg.conf? My video card is almost > dead, i think is something with Video Memory, because in monitor showed > and disappear little noisy pixel, and i wish check out is problem with > video memory

Re: Reduce the consumption of video memory

2013-01-05 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 05 Jan 2013 23:15:06 +0700, Dima Naumov wrote: > Can i reduce using of video memory in xorg.conf? My video card is almost > dead, i think is something with Video Memory, because in monitor showed > and disappear little noisy pixel, and i wish check out is problem with >

Reduce the consumption of video memory

2013-01-05 Thread Dima Naumov
Can i reduce using of video memory in xorg.conf? My video card is almost dead, i think is something with Video Memory, because in monitor showed and disappear little noisy pixel, and i wish check out is problem with video memory? ___ freebsd

Postgresql related memory question

2012-11-09 Thread Frank Broniewski
Hi, I recently had a discussion of PostgreSQLs memory usage on FreeBSD, notably the display of the different memory types in top, on the PostgreSQL mailing list [1]. My server has 32GB ram, of which approx. 8GB vanish from tops display after a while. My question was wether there is a memory

Re: how many memory is needed for FreeBSD 9 ?

2012-10-23 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
located? > > That's one very old laptop. I think you'll need to install more memory > or downgrade FreeBSD to an earlier version. 1998, I think (HP Omnibook 900). I use it for small network testing and serial console access. It works well for this. Well I've put 8-STABLE o

Re: how many memory is needed for FreeBSD 9 ?

2012-10-21 Thread ill...@gmail.com
: >> >> panic: kmem_malloc(4194304): kmem_map too small: 24584192 allocated? > > That's one very old laptop. I think you'll need to install more memory > or downgrade FreeBSD to an earlier version. > > 9.1-RELEASE isn't available yet, only 9.1-RC1 & RC2. Give

Re: how many memory is needed for FreeBSD 9 ?

2012-10-21 Thread andrew clarke
ated? That's one very old laptop. I think you'll need to install more memory or downgrade FreeBSD to an earlier version. 9.1-RELEASE isn't available yet, only 9.1-RC1 & RC2. Given it's prerelease code it's plausible the 9.1-RC2 kernel requires more memory at boot than

how many memory is needed for FreeBSD 9 ?

2012-10-21 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
Hi, I'm updating an old laptop running FreeBSD 8.1 with 64 MB ram (44MB available) but now FreeBSD 9.1 panics at boot time: panic: kmem_malloc(4194304): kmem_map too small: 24584192 allocated? Any work-around? Thanks regards. ___ freebsd-questions@fre

Re: Swapped memory limited to about 500MB for a process ?

2012-09-14 Thread Mickaël Canévet
Gilbert wrote: > >> >> Mickaël Canévet writes: > >> >> > >> >> > I was impacted by a memory leak that has been fixed by this patch: > >> >> > http://people.freebsd.org/~rmacklem/namei-leak.patch > >> >> > > &

Re: Swapped memory limited to about 500MB for a process ?

2012-09-13 Thread Sriram Gorti
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 7:33 PM, Mickaël Canévet wrote: > On Wed, 2012-09-12 at 10:03 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: >> Mickaël Canévet writes: >> >> > On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 13:05 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: >> >> Mickaël Canévet writes: >> >>

Re: Swapped memory limited to about 500MB for a process ?

2012-09-12 Thread Mickaël Canévet
On Wed, 2012-09-12 at 10:03 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Mickaël Canévet writes: > > > On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 13:05 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > >> Mickaël Canévet writes: > >> > >> > I was impacted by a memory leak that has been fixed by th

Re: Swapped memory limited to about 500MB for a process ?

2012-09-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mickaël Canévet writes: > On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 13:05 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: >> Mickaël Canévet writes: >> >> > I was impacted by a memory leak that has been fixed by this patch: >> > http://people.freebsd.org/~rmacklem/namei-leak.patch >> > >

Re: Swapped memory limited to about 500MB for a process ?

2012-09-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mickaël Canévet writes: > On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 13:05 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: >> Mickaël Canévet writes: >> >> > I was impacted by a memory leak that has been fixed by this patch: >> > http://people.freebsd.org/~rmacklem/namei-leak.patch >> > >

Re: Swapped memory limited to about 500MB for a process ?

2012-09-11 Thread Mickaël Canévet
On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 13:05 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Mickaël Canévet writes: > > > I was impacted by a memory leak that has been fixed by this patch: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~rmacklem/namei-leak.patch > > > > What I noticed when the server was pag

Re: Swapped memory limited to about 500MB for a process ?

2012-09-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mickaël Canévet writes: > I was impacted by a memory leak that has been fixed by this patch: > http://people.freebsd.org/~rmacklem/namei-leak.patch > > What I noticed when the server was paging is that it seems that only > about 500MB of my 4GB swap partition was used before

Swapped memory limited to about 500MB for a process ?

2012-09-10 Thread Mickaël Canévet
Hello, I was impacted by a memory leak that has been fixed by this patch: http://people.freebsd.org/~rmacklem/namei-leak.patch What I noticed when the server was paging is that it seems that only about 500MB of my 4GB swap partition was used before crashing. I was wondering why it didn't

Re: Linux app shared memory problem

2012-08-12 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
On 08/12/12 11:12, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Trying to run a Linux app under 9-STABLE. I can start it once and stop it once but all subsequent efforts produces a core dump. I believe the reason being that this app stores licensing information in shared memory and when it stops first time it

Linux app shared memory problem

2012-08-12 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Trying to run a Linux app under 9-STABLE. I can start it once and stop it once but all subsequent efforts produces a core dump. I believe the reason being that this app stores licensing information in shared memory and when it stops first time it fails to remove this info. Is there a sysctl

Re: Apache FCGI in a a jail under FBSD 9 won't start due to shared memory creation error

2012-08-11 Thread Chad Leigh Shire.Net LLC
er >> doing that, the original fcgi problem happens when starting apache2.2 with >> mod_fcgid in the configuration and being loaded >> [Tue Aug 07 13:09:12 2012] [emerg] (78)Function not implemented: mod_fcgid: >> Can't create shared memory for size 1192488 bytes >

Re: Apache FCGI in a a jail under FBSD 9 won't start due to shared memory creation error

2012-08-09 Thread Fbsd8
Tue Aug 07 13:09:12 2012] [emerg] (78)Function not implemented: mod_fcgid: Can't create shared memory for size 1192488 bytes Thanks! Chad Since you manually installed apache22 and mod_fcgid from up-stream sources maybe you missed something. As a test create another jail and install the p

Re: Apache FCGI in a a jail under FBSD 9 won't start due to shared memory creation error

2012-08-07 Thread Chad Leigh Shire.Net LLC
(78)Function not implemented: mod_fcgid: Can't create shared memory for size 1192488 bytes Thanks! Chad

Re: Apache FCGI in a a jail under FBSD 9 won't start due to shared memory creation error

2012-08-07 Thread Mark Felder
jail_sysvipc_allow="YES" in rc.conf should do it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Apache FCGI in a a jail under FBSD 9 won't start due to shared memory creation error

2012-08-07 Thread Chad Leigh Shire . Net LLC
59:35 2012] [emerg] (78)Function not implemented: mod_fcgid: Can't create shared memory for size 1192488 bytes I did a search on this and found that I would probably need a system kernel parameter changed from 0 -> 1 security.jail.sysvipc_allowed So I did that. (And restarted the jail)

Apache FCGI in a a jail under FBSD 9 won't start due to shared memory creation error

2012-07-27 Thread Chad Leigh Shire . Net LLC
)Function not implemented: mod_fcgid: Can't create shared memory for size 1192488 bytes I did a search on this and found that I would probably need a system kernel parameter changed from 0 -> 1 security.jail.sysvipc_allowed So I did that. (And restarted the jail). However, I still get

8.3 Memory Leak

2012-07-11 Thread Paul Macdonald
Hi, After a binary update to 8.3 i'm seeing wired memory increase steadily over the course of about a week, after which point i need to reboot the machine as it starts swapping. Several other boxes were updated at the same time, and all ports rebuilt post upgrade. FreeBSD x.x.co

Re: How can i decrease memory occupied by xorg ?

2012-07-05 Thread Eitan Adler
On 4 July 2012 20:52, J B wrote: > It is in ports: > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xrestop > jb [10001 eitan@radar ~ ]%whereis xrestop xrestop: /usr/ports/x11/xrestop -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lis

Re: How can i decrease memory occupied by xorg ?

2012-07-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
1083 root 1 210 99444K 11544K select 0 1:28 0.00% Xorg doesn't take much, only 11.5MB is resident ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

How can i decrease memory occupied by xorg ?

2012-07-04 Thread J B
It is in ports: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xrestop jb ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

How can i decrease memory occupied by xorg ?

2012-07-04 Thread sw2wolf
9716K 660K select 0 0:05 0.00% moused ... Of course, opera is a big customer of RAM which i cannot decrease its memory usage. then can i descrease the xorg's resident memory ? Sincerely! - e^(π.i) + 1 = 0 -- View this message in context: http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/How-

Re: wired memory - again!

2012-06-09 Thread Colin Barnabas
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/31801/what-is-in-wired-memory On Sat, Jun 09, 2012 at 09:21:35AM +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 &g

Re: FreeBSD vice OS X memory management

2012-04-28 Thread jb
Wojciech Puchar wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> writes: > > > does OS X kernel share any code with FreeBSD kernel's memory management > > subsystem ? > > IMHO no. OSX is somehow-microkernel based, they did take things from > FreeBSD but not this IMHO. > > any

Re: FreeBSD vice OS X memory management

2012-04-28 Thread jb
Wojciech Puchar wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> writes: > > > > > "2) Inactive memory (which is memory that has been recently used but is no > > longer) is supposed to be seamlessly reclaimed automatically by the OS when > > needed for new programs. In practice,

Re: FreeBSD vice OS X memory management

2012-04-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
is relatively new. My guess is that if there is a problem it's ZFS specific. If it were a more general problem I think we'd see a lot more complaints, whereas ZFS already has a reputation for needing lots of memory. you may precisely set up a limits of memory that ZFS would use at most

Re: FreeBSD vice OS X memory management

2012-04-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
real problem analysis, only a wild mix of stuff non-related to FreeBSD sprinkled with some magic 'memory management' dust. The fact that FreeBSD DOES NOT page excessively on the same workload relative to other OS (linux, netbsd) is one of most important thing i decided to use it. I

Re: FreeBSD vice OS X memory management

2012-04-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
"2) Inactive memory (which is memory that has been recently used but is no longer) is supposed to be seamlessly reclaimed automatically by the OS when needed for new programs. In practice, I?ve found that this isn?t the case, and my system slows to a crawl and starts paging out to disk when

Re: FreeBSD vice OS X memory management

2012-04-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
most importantly networking but certainly not memory subsystem. On Wed, 25 Apr 2012, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Apr 25, 2012, at 5:31 AM, jb wrote: does OS X kernel share any code with FreeBSD kernel's memory management subsystem ? The simple answer is no. A more complex answer: % gre

Re: FreeBSD vice OS X memory management

2012-04-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
does OS X kernel share any code with FreeBSD kernel's memory management subsystem ? IMHO no. OSX is somehow-microkernel based, they did take things from FreeBSD but not this IMHO. anyway - who cares Something is deeply broken in OS X memory management http://workstuff.tumblr.com

Re: FreeBSD vice OS X memory management

2012-04-26 Thread jb
RW googlemail.com> writes: > ... > > ... > > "2) Inactive memory (which is memory that has been recently used but > > is no longer) is supposed to be seamlessly reclaimed automatically by > > the OS when needed for new programs. In practice, I’ve found t

Re: FreeBSD vice OS X memory management

2012-04-26 Thread RW
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 08:32:39 + (UTC) jb wrote: > Adam Vande More gmail.com> writes: > > > ... > > http://workstuff.tumblr.com/post/19036310553/two-things-that-really-helped- > > speed-up-my-mac-and > > http://dywypi.org/2012/02/back-on-linux.html > &

Re: FreeBSD vice OS X memory management

2012-04-26 Thread Michael Powell
anything when userland and kernel are out of sync, that is if it runs at all without segfaulting. World and kernel being out of sync would be operator error. In this case the values you are using to somehow relate the symptom to memory management would be false. As far as all the rest, such as

Re: FreeBSD vice OS X memory management

2012-04-26 Thread jb
Adam Vande More gmail.com> writes: > ... > http://workstuff.tumblr.com/post/19036310553/two-things-that-really-helped- > speed-up-my-mac-and > http://dywypi.org/2012/02/back-on-linux.html > "2) Inactive memory (which is memory that has been recently used but is no lo

Re: FreeBSD vice OS X memory management

2012-04-25 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 12:04 AM, jb wrote: > If so, should FreeBSD adopt NetBSD's MM subsys, or just improve itself > surgically ? > You ought first establish there is a problem. What you have cited is recently reinvigorated trend that has taken on the air of the "BDS is dying" troll. What y

Re: FreeBSD vice OS X memory management

2012-04-25 Thread jb
jb gmail.com> writes: > ... > "The related implementation in FreeBSD seems to have a similar problem: > > NetBSD users have also reported that UVM’s im- provements have had a positive > effect on their applica- tions. This is most noticeable when physical memory >

Re: FreeBSD vice OS X memory management

2012-04-25 Thread jb
Chuck Swiger mac.com> writes: > > On Apr 25, 2012, at 5:31 AM, jb wrote: > > does OS X kernel share any code with FreeBSD kernel's memory management subsystem ? > > The simple answer is no. A more complex answer: > > % grep -ri freebsd xnu-1699.24.23 | w

Re: FreeBSD vice OS X memory management

2012-04-25 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 25, 2012, at 5:31 AM, jb wrote: > does OS X kernel share any code with FreeBSD kernel's memory management > subsystem ? The simple answer is no. A more complex answer: % grep -ri freebsd xnu-1699.24.23 | wc -l 520 % grep -ril freebsd xnu-1699.24.23 | sort | uniq

FreeBSD vice OS X memory management

2012-04-25 Thread jb
Hi, does OS X kernel share any code with FreeBSD kernel's memory management subsystem ? Something is deeply broken in OS X memory management http://workstuff.tumblr.com/post/20464780085/something-is-deeply-broken-in-os-x- memory-management One of the problems that caught my eyes was ina

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 - active plus inactive memory leak!?

2012-03-07 Thread Luke Marsden
hat > >> the following is a true statement: > >> > >> a page is accounted for in active + inactive if and only if it > >> corresponds to one or more of the pages accounted for in the > >> resident memory lists of all the proc

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 - active plus inactive memory leak!?

2012-03-07 Thread J B
a page is accounted for in active + inactive if and only if it >> corresponds to one or more of the pages accounted for in the >> resident memory lists of all the processes on the system (as >> per the output of 'top' and 'ps') >

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 - active plus inactive memory leak!?

2012-03-07 Thread Luke Marsden
page is accounted for in active + inactive if and only if it > > corresponds to one or more of the pages accounted for in the > > resident memory lists of all the processes on the system (as per > > the output of 'top' and 'ps') > No. >

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 - active plus inactive memory leak!?

2012-03-06 Thread RW
On Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:30:07 -0500 Chuck Swiger wrote: > On 3/6/2012 2:13 PM, Luke Marsden wrote: > >* Resident corresponds to a subset of the pages above: those > > pages which actually occupy physical/core memory. Notably pages may > > appear in s

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 - active plus inactive memory leak!?

2012-03-06 Thread Luke Marsden
Thanks for your email, Chuck. > > Conversely, if a page *does not* occur in the resident > > memory of any process, it must not occupy any space in the active + > > inactive lists. > > Hmm...if a process gets swapped out entirely, the pages for it will be moved > to t

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 - active plus inactive memory leak!?

2012-03-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
On 3/6/2012 2:13 PM, Luke Marsden wrote: [ ... ] My current (probably quite simplistic) understanding of the FreeBSD virtual memory system is that, for each process as reported by top: * Size corresponds to the total size of all the text pages for the process (those belonging to

Re: issue with limiting java's memory usage

2012-01-29 Thread Alexander Best
12M uwait 0 18.3H > > 39.06% /usr/local/diablo-jdk1.6.0/bin/java -Xmx512m -jar JDownloade > > > > ...how can the size of the resident memory of pid 6913 be > 512 > > megabytes? > > I don't know but you can inspect the java application with the java >

Re: issue with limiting java's memory usage

2012-01-29 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
ee, 24% Inuse, 4K > In > > PIDUIDTHR PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME WCPU > COMMAND 6913 1001 32 200 4252M 1312M uwait 0 18.3H > 39.06% /usr/local/diablo-jdk1.6.0/bin/java -Xmx512m -jar JDownloade > > ...how can the size of the resident memor

issue with limiting java's memory usage

2012-01-29 Thread Alexander Best
0 4252M 1312M uwait 0 18.3H 39.06% /usr/local/diablo-jdk1.6.0/bin/java -Xmx512m -jar JDownloade ...how can the size of the resident memory of pid 6913 be > 512 megabytes? this is wth a very recent HEAD on amd64. cheers. alex ___ free

Re: Shared Memory allocation in jail

2012-01-05 Thread Alejandro Imass
e jail You should the see something like the example below, where there is still one Pg on uid 70 but from the jail's perspective it's the pgsql user who now has uid of 70124 Message Queues: T ID KEY MODEOWNERGROUP Shared Memory: T ID

Re: Shared Memory allocation in jail

2012-01-05 Thread bsd
Le 5 janv. 2012 à 14:56, bsd a écrit : > Hi, > > I am trying to run both postgres and zabbix in the same jail and I am only > able to start postgres or zabbix not both of them. > > I have tuned my sysctl on master host as follow : > > kern.ipc.shmmax=268435456 > kern.ipc.shmall=409600 > ker

Shared Memory allocation in jail

2012-01-05 Thread bsd
Hi, I am trying to run both postgres and zabbix in the same jail and I am only able to start postgres or zabbix not both of them. I have tuned my sysctl on master host as follow : kern.ipc.shmmax=268435456 kern.ipc.shmall=409600 kern.ipc.semmap=256 security.jail.allow_raw_sockets=1 security

Re: Free memory exhausted by networking

2011-12-13 Thread RW
On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:57:52 +0700 Dmitriy Kryuk wrote: > I'm running Transmission (http://www.transmissionbt.com/), а > BitTorrent client on my FreeBSD 7.2 box. It requests large recieve > buffers for its network connections. This leaves my system with > absolutely no fre

Re: Free memory exhausted by networking

2011-12-13 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Dmitriy Kryuk wrote: > > How do I make FreeBSD keep some memory free (and so avoid swapping) with > Transmission running? > Your top(1) output doesn't indicate to me that swapping is a problem. There were some performance problems with Transm

Free memory exhausted by networking

2011-12-13 Thread Dmitriy Kryuk
I'm running Transmission (http://www.transmissionbt.com/), а BitTorrent client on my FreeBSD 7.2 box. It requests large recieve buffers for its network connections. This leaves my system with absolutely no free memory. If some process frees a large amount of memory, it gets consumed abou

Memory error?

2011-11-04 Thread Brett Glass
All: Just got these messages in the log after installing FreeBSD 9.0-RC1 on an older machine. The system hasn't shown any glitches or crashes, so the error wasn't fatal. I'm guessing that there was an error in cache memory that was corrected by ECC; is this correct? Nov

Re: Check Memory Usage, program like 'free' in Linux

2011-11-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jon Schipp writes: > You wouldn't want to know when your machine has reached periods of high > memory utilization? No, I want to know when my machine would perform better if it had more memory. Keeping memory in use when it otherwise would be "free" means I get

Re: Check Memory Usage, program like 'free' in Linux

2011-11-03 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Jon Schipp wrote: > I'm under the impression that virtual memory and physical memory usage are > very different. > > e.g. vmstat and top report very different memory values. > If I assume this is an XY problem, and your true goal is find out

Re: Check Memory Usage, program like 'free' in Linux

2011-11-03 Thread Jon Schipp
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Lowell Gilbert < freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: > Jon Schipp writes: > > > On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Rares Aioanei > wrote: > > > >> On 11/03/2011 03:18 PM, Jon Schipp wrote: > >> > >>

Re: Check Memory Usage, program like 'free' in Linux

2011-11-03 Thread Jon Schipp
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Robert Bonomi wrote: > > From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Nov 3 08:17:46 2011 > > Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 09:18:06 -0400 > > From: Jon Schipp > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Subject: Check Memory Usage

Re: Check Memory Usage, program like 'free' in Linux

2011-11-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jon Schipp writes: > On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Rares Aioanei wrote: > >> On 11/03/2011 03:18 PM, Jon Schipp wrote: >> >>> Is there a program to check physical memory usage in FreeBSD(using 8.2 >>> RELEASE)? >>> In vain of 'free'

Re: Check Memory Usage, program like 'free' in Linux

2011-11-03 Thread mrkvrg
Hello Jon, Perhaps the port sysutils/freecolor. Cheers ... Mark >Is there a program to check physical memory usage in FreeBSD(using 8.2 >RELEASE)? >In vain of 'free' in Linux. >I know you can check the values with sysctl, I was just checking if anyone >has a "

Re: Check Memory Usage, program like 'free' in Linux

2011-11-03 Thread Mike Jeays
On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 10:06:19 -0400 Jon Schipp wrote: > On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Rares Aioanei wrote: > > > On 11/03/2011 03:18 PM, Jon Schipp wrote: > > > >> Is there a program to check physical memory usage in FreeBSD(using 8.2 > >> RELEASE)? > >

Re: Check Memory Usage, program like 'free' in Linux

2011-11-03 Thread Jon Schipp
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Rares Aioanei wrote: > On 11/03/2011 03:18 PM, Jon Schipp wrote: > >> Is there a program to check physical memory usage in FreeBSD(using 8.2 >> RELEASE)? >> In vain of 'free' in Linux. >> >> I know you can check

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