From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 22 20:42:14 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3547737B401 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 20:42:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (imap.gmx.net [213.165.65.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EDD6E43F93 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 20:42:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from blueeskimo@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 3138 invoked by uid 65534); 23 Apr 2003 03:42:11 -0000 Received: from i216-58-29-174.gta.igs.net (EHLO [216.58.29.174]) (216.58.29.174) by mail.gmx.net (mp007-rz3) with SMTP; 23 Apr 2003 05:42:11 +0200 From: Adam To: Bill Moran In-Reply-To: <3EA53661.6010007@potentialtech.com> References: <20030422004530.CAAB.BLUEESKIMO@gmx.net> <3EA53661.6010007@potentialtech.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-uft43bUB9AAglOrQakLw" Organization: Message-Id: <1051069331.88928.5.camel@jake> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4 Date: 22 Apr 2003 23:42:11 -0400 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange networking behaviour (memory leak?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 03:42:14 -0000 --=-uft43bUB9AAglOrQakLw Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 actua= lly > 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 quick= er > 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, --=20 Adam --=-uft43bUB9AAglOrQakLw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+pguTu3o4GBMSDL4RAoedAKCH8eDPRJjJ23UU1YrIADO24VWt7wCePWDc 0YmmK5Du0UzULdHg5GirJcY= =pUXV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-uft43bUB9AAglOrQakLw--