Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 11:26:34 +0200 From: Stephane Dupille <stephane@dupille.org> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Memory management Message-ID: <ygek660btth.fsf@nospam.fr.eu.org>
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Hello there, I have a computer running FreeBSD 6.1. As time passing by, the memory fills up. When the machine starts, memory is occupied to 30 %, and after two or three weeks memory is occupied to 100 % and it begins to use swap. It is "inactive" pages that fills up the memory. I tried to restart every process, but memory usage does not decrease. Only a reboot can fix that. And I'm not able to see which process leaks. I was not able to find a correct definition of what "inactive" memory is. First, I would like to know what are these kind of pages : wired, active, inactive, cache and free. Is that normal that inactive memory usage grows ? What should I do ? Do you have any tools to monitor memory usage of processes ? Many thanks, regards,
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