Date: 05 Jul 2005 15:49:10 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: <scuba@centroin.com.br> Cc: FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Where is the memory Message-ID: <44ekad3ufd.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.4.33.0507051602100.13812-100000@hypselo.centroin.com.br> References: <Pine.BSI.4.33.0507051602100.13812-100000@hypselo.centroin.com.br>
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<scuba@centroin.com.br> writes: > On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Chuck Swiger wrote: >=20 > |scuba@centroin.com.br wrote: > |[ ... ] > |> My 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 spa= ce to > |cache stuff from disk, unless and until that memory is needed for someth= ing else. >=20 > It 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. That isn't relevant. The memory won't even be mapped in until it is accessed.=20=20 > That is the memory top shows as "Inactive"? I don't understand the question. I suspect you are looking for the following bit of the FreeBSD documentation: http://www.br.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#TOP-FREEM= EM
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