Date: 22 Apr 2003 23:42:11 -0400 From: Adam <blueeskimo@gmx.net> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange networking behaviour (memory leak?) Message-ID: <1051069331.88928.5.camel@jake> In-Reply-To: <3EA53661.6010007@potentialtech.com> References: <20030422004530.CAAB.BLUEESKIMO@gmx.net> <3EA53661.6010007@potentialtech.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 08:32, Bill Moran wrote: > Yes and yes. > I assume that you're looking at the output of top while you're doing this. You are right. I was sitting at the other computer initiating the transfers, while watching top on this console. All I noticed as the 'free' RAM dropping like crazy. > FreeBSD is pretty smart about memory. In the top display you see active, > inactive, cache, buffer, wired, and free memory. The memory that's actually > free is really the sum of inactive, buffer, cache, and free. The free > memory is free immediately, those other three can become free with very, > very little effort on the part of the kernel, but if you call up the same > application again and it's still in inactive memory, it'll start up quicker > than if it has to reload it from disk. > Free memory is wasted memory. Wow, thanks for the clarifications (and education). I actually very glad you explained this to me. You'll have to excuse my ignorance on some topics; my lack of experience is sometimes glaringly obvious. Thanks again, -- Adam <blueeskimo@gmx.net> [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+pguTu3o4GBMSDL4RAoedAKCH8eDPRJjJ23UU1YrIADO24VWt7wCePWDc 0YmmK5Du0UzULdHg5GirJcY= =pUXV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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