Thanks Dave and Damjan for quick inputs.
This helps in understanding the memory mgmt in vpp.
Inline to your questions.
1. Can you capture "show memory main-heapsh” before and after?
We are currently in fdio.1810 and i am not seeing this option.
2. One more quick question.
With this model of
Can you capture "show memory main-heapsh” before and after?
Will show you exact number of pages mapped.
I.e.
vpp# show memory main-heap
Thread 0 vpp_main
virtual memory start 0x7f13c03ae000, size 1048640k, 262160 pages, page size 4k
numa 1: 45220 pages, 180880k
not mapped: 216940
, and free the
original.
Personally, I would never go in this direction.
HTH... Dave
From: vpp-dev@lists.fd.io On Behalf Of Satya Murthy
Sent: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 8:59 AM
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Subject: [vpp-dev] naive questions on VPP memory usage ( does it ever come down
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Few questions
Few questions on VPP memory usage.
1. Using pmap -p i am collecting the total memory usage of vpp
process at the beginning of my test. ( it is X KB )
2. I ran test for few hours which will obviously have lot of pool_get/pool_put
3. Collected the same same pmap output and the memory usage grown