From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 4 01:10:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA27744 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 01:10:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from korky.fe.up.pt (korky.fe.up.pt [192.82.214.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA27682 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 01:09:07 -0800 (PST) From: ee96199@tom.fe.up.pt Received: by korky.fe.up.pt; id AA07287; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 10:10:26 GMT Received: from localhost by tom.fe.up.pt; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/16Oct95-1216PM) id AA27234; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 10:10:53 GMT Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 10:10:52 +0000 (GMT) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RAM usage Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Since I moved from Linux to FreeBSD I was a bit surprised when I found out that FreeBSD programs use far more memory that their similars in Linux. At the moment I have 16MB of RAM and with only 9 processes running (3 gettys, syslogd, cron, inetd and system procs like swapper or init) I only get (with top) 7MB of free memory particioned by 5MB for cache and 2MB for buffer... The strange thing is that a 'ps aux' shows that this 9 processes use 4MB. Is this normal? - Cheers, Jorge