From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 8 04:10:10 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87201106568D; Wed, 8 Oct 2008 04:10:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuri@rawbw.com) Received: from shell.rawbw.com (shell.rawbw.com [198.144.192.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58DE68FC22; Wed, 8 Oct 2008 04:10:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuri@rawbw.com) Received: from eagle.syrec.org (c-67-188-126-36.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.188.126.36]) (authenticated bits=0) by shell.rawbw.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m984B3ZV055182; Tue, 7 Oct 2008 21:11:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <48EC329F.9070902@rawbw.com> Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:10:07 -0700 From: Yuri User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20081001) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeremy Chadwick References: <48EBCC75.1040908@rawbw.com> <20081007222528.GA60058@icarus.home.lan> <48EBF40D.5050807@rawbw.com> <20081008040420.GA66117@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <20081008040420.GA66117@icarus.home.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Strange memory/cpu behavior X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: yuri@rawbw.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:10:10 -0000 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > I'm a little confused. I was mainly referring to your statement: > > "There is one large active process slowly growing in memory from 500MB > to 1300MB, not reading or writing any files." > > What field in top(1) were you looking at to determine this kind of > growth? > Sorry, I misunderstood the question first. Memory is taken from the SIZE column, but RES is always very close. Yuri