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Subject: Re: Memory and Battery applets
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On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 02:11:45AM -0500, Matt Aasted wrote:
> I'm running Gnome 2.8 on a recent version of FreeBSD Stable 5.3 on an
> x86 (dell latitude d600) processor, and whenever my system is on the
> memory usage shown in the gnome memory monitor slowly climbs to 100%
> over the course of about an hour. Gkrellm confirms that it the memory
> is slowly going away, even when I'm not interacting with the system.
> Should I be concerned about this (is there a memory leak or something
> or is the applet just buggy?)

Are you sure it isn't just disk cache?  As I understand it, FreeBSD keeps
things it reads from disk in memory until that memory is needed by something
else, the effect being that very little of physical memory is ever completely
unused.