Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 16:07:06 -0300 (EST) From: <scuba@centroin.com.br> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Where is the memory Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.4.33.0507051602100.13812-100000@hypselo.centroin.com.br> In-Reply-To: <42CACE54.8090103@mac.com>
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On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Chuck Swiger wrote: |scuba@centroin.com.br wrote: |[ ... ] |> =09My problem is that I think something in the system is allocating |> memory and not releasing it. | |The kernel will attempt to use all but a little RAM reserved as free space= to |cache stuff from disk, unless and until that memory is needed for somethin= g else. =09It seems that this is the case. I wrote a small program to allocate a large block of memory (more them that shown as free) and the system doesn=B4t swap. =09That is the memory top shows as "Inactive"? Thank you, - Marcelo Souza
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