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 http

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 stick with an msdos file system

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 the newfs_msdos

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 a windoze system

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'd suggest

Re: initialize msdosfs on memory stick?

2013-09-12 Thread Gary Aitken
On 09/12/13 16:26, Polytropon wrote: 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 stick

Re: initialize msdosfs on memory stick?

2013-09-12 Thread Fbsd8
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 carefully when the summary

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 windoze system? Sure, it's possible

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 find

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 need to initialize a usb memory stick with an msdos file system

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 know

Re: memory stick

2013-08-08 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 9:34 AM, william benton weben...@hotmail.com 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. If you

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 can't

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, Status

Re: Is this a memory error?

2013-07-06 Thread jb
Dennis Glatting freebsd at 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 at mc:/usr/obj/disk-1/src/sys/SMUNI amd64 Jul

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: 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

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=revisionrevision=233760 Thanks to all! -- Respectfully, Stanislav Putrya System administrator FotoStrana.Ru Ltd. ICQ IM: 328585847 Jabber-GoogleTalk: root.vagner mob.phone SPB: +79215788755

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: 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

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

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 used, until the system

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

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

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 cartwri...@asu.eduwrote: 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

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: Limiting jail CPU memory resources

2013-03-01 Thread Mark Felder
On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 08:38:05 -0600, fb...@a1poweruser.com 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

Re: Limiting jail CPU memory resources

2013-03-01 Thread Fbsd8
Mark Felder wrote: On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 08:38:05 -0600, fb...@a1poweruser.com 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

Re: Limiting jail CPU memory resources

2013-03-01 Thread Mark Felder
On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 09:52:41 -0600, fb...@a1poweruser.com 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

Re: Limiting jail CPU memory resources

2013-03-01 Thread Fbsd8
Mark Felder wrote: On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 09:52:41 -0600, fb...@a1poweruser.com 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

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

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 video memory? You

Re: Reduce the consumption of video memory

2013-01-05 Thread jb
Dima Naumov clangbsd at 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? - check in BIOS

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
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 on it (two days to make buildworld/buildkernel

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. ___

Re: how many memory is needed for FreeBSD 9 ?

2012-10-21 Thread andrew clarke
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 9.1-REL will. Attempting to boot 9.0-REL from CD

Re: how many memory is needed for FreeBSD 9 ?

2012-10-21 Thread ill...@gmail.com
(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. Given it's prerelease code it's plausible the 9.1-RC2 kernel requires more

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

2012-09-14 Thread Mickaël Canévet
: Mickaël Canévet cane...@embl.fr 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

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

2012-09-13 Thread Sriram Gorti
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 take the whole 4GB up

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

2012-09-12 Thread Mickaël Canévet
On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 13:05 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Mickaël Canévet cane...@embl.fr 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

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

2012-09-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mickaël Canévet cane...@embl.fr writes: On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 13:05 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Mickaël Canévet cane...@embl.fr 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

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

2012-09-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mickaël Canévet cane...@embl.fr writes: On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 13:05 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Mickaël Canévet cane...@embl.fr 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

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 cane...@embl.fr writes: On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 13:05 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Mickaël Canévet cane...@embl.fr writes: I was impacted by a memory leak that has been fixed by this patch: http

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

2012-09-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mickaël Canévet cane...@embl.fr 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 crashing

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 take

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: 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

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
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 Thanks! Chad Since you manually installed apache22 and mod_fcgid from up-stream sources maybe you missed something. As a test create

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

2012-08-09 Thread Fbsd8
: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 package versions

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
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). However, I

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

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
not implemented: mod_fcgid: Can't create shared memory for size 1192488 bytes Thanks! Chad

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 the same error

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

Re: How can i decrease memory occupied by xorg ?

2012-07-05 Thread Eitan Adler
On 4 July 2012 20:52, J B jb.1234a...@gmail.com 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

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-can-i

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

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 FreeBSD 9 - few days

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/post

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: % grep -ri

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 free

Re: FreeBSD vice OS X memory management

2012-04-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
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. If his system

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. or just

Re: FreeBSD vice OS X memory management

2012-04-28 Thread jb
Wojciech Puchar wojtek at 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, I?ve found that this isn?t the case

Re: FreeBSD vice OS X memory management

2012-04-28 Thread jb
Wojciech Puchar wojtek at 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. anyway - who cares Well, I quoted

Re: FreeBSD vice OS X memory management

2012-04-26 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 12:04 AM, jb jb.1234a...@gmail.com 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

Re: FreeBSD vice OS X memory management

2012-04-26 Thread jb
Adam Vande More amvandemore at 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 longer) is supposed

Re: FreeBSD vice OS X memory management

2012-04-26 Thread Michael Powell
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 something being deeply broken in OS X memory management, mentions of NetBSD memory management, etc

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 amvandemore at 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

Re: FreeBSD vice OS X memory management

2012-04-26 Thread jb
RW rwmaillists at 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 that this isn’t the case, and my

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 inactive

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 % grep -ril freebsd

Re: FreeBSD vice OS X memory management

2012-04-25 Thread jb
Chuck Swiger cswiger at 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 | wc -l 520 % grep -ril freebsd

Re: FreeBSD vice OS X memory management

2012-04-25 Thread jb
jb jb.1234abcd at 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 becomes scarce

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

2012-03-07 Thread Luke Marsden
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. The pages belonging to vnode vm object can be active or inactive or cached but not mapped

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

2012-03-07 Thread J B
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. The pages belonging to vnode vm object can be active or inactive or cached but not mapped

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

2012-03-07 Thread Luke Marsden
: 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') No. The pages belonging to vnode vm

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

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 the cache list, flushed

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 size but not appear in resident

issue with limiting java's memory usage

2012-01-29 Thread Alexander Best
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 ___ freebsd-questions

Re: issue with limiting java's memory usage

2012-01-29 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
UIDTHR 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 memory of pid 6913 be 512 megabytes? I don't know but you can

Re: issue with limiting java's memory usage

2012-01-29 Thread Alexander Best
of the resident memory of pid 6913 be 512 megabytes? I don't know but you can inspect the java application with the java console (jconsole). There are several stats on memory usage. jconsole doesn't seem to work for me. all i get is a blank white X window. :( cheers. alex With JDownloader (doing

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

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

Re: Shared Memory allocation in jail

2012-01-05 Thread Alejandro Imass
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 KEY MODEOWNER

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 about 1.5

Re: Free memory exhausted by networking

2011-12-13 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Dmitriy Kryuk kryukdmit...@rambler.ruwrote: 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

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 free memory. If some process

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 4 08:31:21 joe

Check Memory Usage, program like 'free' in Linux

2011-11-03 Thread Jon Schipp
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 cleaner option. I was always curious. Thanks Jon ___ freebsd

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

2011-11-03 Thread Edward
On 11/3/11 9:18 PM, Jon Schipp wrote: Is there a program to check physical memory usage in FreeBSD(using 8.2 RELEASE)? Hi Jon, Check out the port /usr/ports/sysutils/sysinfo . HTH ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

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 bsdlis...@gmail.com 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 the values with sysctl, I was just checking

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 jonsch...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Rares Aioanei bsdlis...@gmail.com 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 cleaner option. I was always curious

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

2011-11-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jon Schipp jonsch...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Rares Aioanei bsdlis...@gmail.com 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

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 bon...@mail.r-bonomi.comwrote: 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 jonsch...@gmail.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Check Memory Usage

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

2011-11-03 Thread Jon Schipp
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 cleaner option. I was always curious. Thanks Jon __**_ freebsd-questions

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 jonsch...@gmail.com 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 what

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