From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 13 13:35:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC33737C5E6 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 13:35:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #1) id 13CpDW-0002es-00; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 21:04:18 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.15 #1) id 13CpDW-0000Hq-00; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 21:04:18 +0100 Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 21:04:18 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Dan Nelson Cc: Glenn McCalley , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what is soaking up memory? Message-ID: <20000713210418.K48641@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <20000713093805.A20695@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="vJI8q/aziP9idhqk" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000713093805.A20695@dan.emsphone.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --vJI8q/aziP9idhqk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dan Nelson wrote: > Free memory is wasted memory. The RAM that your programs don't > actively allocate is used by FreeBSD as disk cache. Inact, Cache, and > Buf are all cached data at different aging levels. You actually want > as little Free memory as possible. I think I'll add this question, with your answer, to the FAQ. This question is becoming a FAQ, after all... --=20 Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D FreeBSD Documentation Project / --vJI8q/aziP9idhqk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: 2/oPMMQsrKWLU3ZHTlpr071H8cEGy6QY iQCVAwUBOW4gwSsPVtiZOS99AQGhVQP+Mati0S7gUspDe5J/lyl1JAcEAiqxYeQ3 2H4B9Lu2QdfQI9GlvDZOR7jgDmsD0ziV/hsL8LbXMFnk1nX8xv6gGRen7OqbfTMP 3sib81ENDx4sW7Azbaj0IG1XJrkfqaq9PkRTBYm+P+uxYVMGsKVSgg1Z3EkSRgjO egiTJ6NeHUY= =VHHO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --vJI8q/aziP9idhqk-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message