From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Nov 19 10:52:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freesbee.wheel.dk (freesbee.wheel.dk [193.162.159.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E37714E00 for ; Fri, 19 Nov 1999 10:52:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jesper@skriver.dk) Received: by freesbee.wheel.dk (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 576D63E2F; Fri, 19 Nov 1999 19:52:39 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 19:52:39 +0100 From: Jesper Skriver To: Phillip Salzman Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Memory leaks? Message-ID: <19991119195239.D18845@skriver.dk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from phill@rumfish.corp.gulf.net on Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 10:37:11AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 10:37:11AM -0600, Phillip Salzman wrote: > I'm having a very strange problem. We are attempting to rsync var/mail > from a BSD/OS 3.1 machine, to its replacement, a FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE > box. > > This uses a lot of memory, in theory, but it should release it when > completed. I'd think :) > > Mem: 10M Active, 214M Inact, 14M Wired, 10M Cache, 8337K Buf, 896K Free ^^^^^^^^^^ As far as I know, this just mean that this memory has been used, and is available, but it's not zero'ed. /Jesper -- Jesper Skriver (JS4261-RIPE), Network manager Tele Danmark DataNet, IP section (AS3292) One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them, One IP to bring them all and in the zone to bind them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message