On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 01:40:06AM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> 13.02.2019 1:18, Mark Johnston wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 01:03:37AM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> >> 12.02.2019 23:34, Mark Johnston wrote:
> >>
> >>> I suspect that the "leaked" memory is simply being used to cache UMA
> >>> items.  Note that the values in the FREE column of vmstat -z output are
> >>> quite large.  The cached items are reclaimed only when the page daemon
> >>> wakes up to reclaim memory; if there are no memory shortages, large
> >>> amounts of memory may accumulate in UMA caches.  In this case, the sum
> >>> of the product of columns 2 and 5 gives a total of roughly 4GB cached.
> >>>
> >>>> as well as "sysctl hw": 
> >>>> http://www.grosbein.net/freebsd/leak/sysctl-hw.txt
> >>>> and "sysctl vm": http://www.grosbein.net/freebsd/leak/sysctl-vm.txt
> >>
> >> It seems page daemon is broken somehow as it did not reclaim several gigs 
> >> of wired memory
> >> despite of long period of vm thrashing:
> > 
> > Depending on the system's workload, it is possible for the caches to
> > grow quite quickly after a reclaim.  If you are able to run kgdb on the
> > kernel, you can find the time of the last reclaim by comparing the
> > values of lowmem_uptime and time_uptime.
> 
> Yes, I have debugger compiled into running kernel and have console access.
> What commands should I use?

I meant kgdb(1).  If you can run that, try:

(kgdb) p time_uptime
(kgdb) p lowmem_uptime

If you are willing to drop the system into DDB, do so and run

db> x time_uptime
db> x lowmem_uptime
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