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diff --git a/cddl/contrib/dtracetoolkit/Examples/anonpgpid_example.txt b/cddl/contrib/dtracetoolkit/Examples/anonpgpid_example.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b505f3d --- /dev/null +++ b/cddl/contrib/dtracetoolkit/Examples/anonpgpid_example.txt @@ -0,0 +1,73 @@ +The following is a demonstration of the anonpgpid.d script, + + +Here we run it on a system that is implementing memory caps using the +resource capping daemon, "rcapd", + + # anonpgpid.d + Tracing... Hit Ctrl-C to end. + ^C + PID CMD D BYTES + 6215 bash R 8192 + 6215 bash W 126976 + 5809 rcapd R 245760 + 6222 memleak.pl R 974848 + 6222 memleak.pl W 3055616 + +The "memleak.pl" process consumes memory, and we can see above that it has +encountered both reads and writes to the physical swap device - it is being +paged out. A bash shell was also effected (which was in the same project that +rcapd was monitoring). + + + +The following is an ordinary system that is very low on memory, + + # anonpgpid.d + Tracing... Hit Ctrl-C to end. + ^C + PID CMD D BYTES + 18885 sendmail R 4096 + 18600 automountd R 4096 + 1 init R 4096 + 2456 inetd R 8192 + 18546 nscd R 8192 + 2400 bash R 12288 + 217 utmpd R 28672 + 221 ttymon R 32768 + 210 sac R 36864 + 18777 snmpd R 49152 + 18440 init R 49152 + 89 nscd R 61440 + 318 syslogd R 73728 + 487 snmpd R 81920 + 2453 inetd R 102400 + 165 in.routed R 131072 + 294 automountd R 135168 + 215 inetd R 135168 + 187 rpcbind R 204800 + 86 kcfd R 290816 + 7 svc.startd R 1015808 + 9 svc.configd R 1478656 + 2 pageout W 23453696 + +The "pageout" process is responsible for writing all the anonymous memory +pages to the physical swap device, and we can see from the above that it +has written 23 Mb. When processes access anonymous memory that has been +swapped out, a major fault occurs and the memory is paged back in; in this +case we can trace the process that was effected, and from the above we can +see that several processes have been effected by the memory pressure. +The most is "svc.configd", which needed to page back in 1.4 Mb of anonymous +memory. + + + +Sometimes anonpgpid.d doesn't help too much. Here we only have pageouts +to the physical swap device and no pageins, + + # anonpgpid.d + ^C + PID CMD D BYTES + 2 pageout W 61083648 + +Only pageout is identified. |