Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:51:09 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Nguyen Danh Hieu <ndh.21march@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Programs don't free memory Message-ID: <20060107215109.GB2286@flame.pc> In-Reply-To: <f0192ed90601071251g244f6577g@mail.gmail.com> References: <f0192ed90601071251g244f6577g@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2006-01-07 20:51, Nguyen Danh Hieu <ndh.21march@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everybody > Sorry for my bad English but I have a question.I have 512Mb memory on my > PC but as I realize at starting my system have about 100Mb active memory, > but when the system have worked for a while there is no free memory on my > system ( about 350Mb inactive) As I understand this means some programs ( > like kdeinit) don't want to free memory after workes. Is this true? How can > I fix th??s problem out? "free memory is memory wasted". For a better, more lengthy and more detailed explanation of this, please see the excellent article of Matt Dillon that describes ``virtual memory'' and how it works in FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/vm-design/
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