Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 16:26:17 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Steve 1 <ukla@attbi.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Inactive Memory Creep Message-ID: <20020320162617.A42654@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <B8BE3B8B.25B8%ukla@attbi.com>; from ukla@attbi.com on Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 01:13:48PM -0800 References: <B8BE3B8B.25B8%ukla@attbi.com>
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--opJtzjQTFsWo+cga Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 01:13:48PM -0800, Steve 1 wrote: > Hey All, >=20 > I have an odd problem that I cannot figure out. >=20 > Running top shows the inactive memory on my machine creeps steadily upwar= ds. >=20 > Currently up 7 days >=20 > Mem: 26M Active, 545M Inact, 56M Wired, 4K Cache, 112M Buf, 376M Free > Swap: 1028M Total, 1028M Free >=20 > Luckily I have a machine with a gig of ram so I have plenty of headroom. I > run almost no services (BSD-AMP) on the machine so I am puzzled as to what > is using the space and not giving it up, or is this an OS thing? It's an optimization. Since nothing else requires that memory (you have 376M free), it's better to just leave it as is. See http://www.daemonnews.org/200001/freebsd_vm.html for in-depth information on FreeBSD's VM system. Kris --opJtzjQTFsWo+cga Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8mSipWry0BWjoQKURAsAZAKDI+iESjYNsZEchdW4cAKWMWEvdjQCghWvI XT/LAsH1+RyasM+23CSM73k= =QuRj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --opJtzjQTFsWo+cga-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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