From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 1 8:55:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from axl.noc.iafrica.com (axl.noc.iafrica.com [196.31.1.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E97AE14FA0 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 08:55:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.noc.iafrica.com) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.noc.iafrica.com) by axl.noc.iafrica.com with local-esmtp (Exim 3.040 #1) id 11tD1M-000FQg-00; Wed, 01 Dec 1999 18:54:24 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: "Cheney Brothers, Inc." Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Memory Leak In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 31 Dec 1999 08:46:14 EST." <01BF536B.812ED780@MIKENEW> Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 18:54:24 +0200 Message-ID: <59313.944067264@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 31 Dec 1999 08:46:14 EST, "Cheney Brothers, Inc." wrote: > I am running 196 megs of ram and after a fresh reboot of the server > I have approx 140 megs free, after an hour I may have 116 megs free and > it continues to go down and down untill I am around 2000K and then it > might go upto 30 megs free and bounce right back down ro 3000K. How do you determine "free memory"? I ask because it's not something you really want a lot of with a UNIX machine. Most of your "free" memory should "go down" after boot in exactly the manner you describe as the buffer cache fills up. This is good for performance. > When it gets real low my cgi's can't run anymore and I have to do a > reboot about once a day. What does "my cgi's can't run anymore" mean? What actually happens? Does Apache run the processes, does it log anything to httpd_errors.log, do they produce _any_ output? My concern is that you have a misunderstanding of "free memory" and are pinning on its low value, the blame for some unrelated problem. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message