From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 26 14: 7:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.SKINNYHIPPO.COM (mail.SKINNYHIPPO.COM [216.25.13.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BF1914C84 for ; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 14:07:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from panda@skinnyhippo.com) Received: from egg [202.188.111.43] by mail.SKINNYHIPPO.COM (SMTPD32-5.05) id ABF8233701F8; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 17:04:56 -0400 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990827054143.009cf6d0@mail.skinnyhippo.com> X-Sender: panda@mail.skinnyhippo.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 05:41:43 +0900 To: dg@root.com From: chas Subject: Re: High Inactive memory levels - cause for concern ? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199908262040.NAA03018@implode.root.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thank you for the reassurance David - sorry for the earlier paranoia : I misunderstood the cycle for memory usage. Now I can sleep much better - thank you :) chas >>Am I going to get to the stage where Free memory is zero >>and all of it is 'inactive' ? If so, what proactive measures >>would you advise ? > > I dunno - have a soda and be happy, I guess. Free memory being near zero >is usually a good thing since it means that your memory is being used >effectively. FreeBSD uses all otherwise free memory for file caching, and >you can't determine the breakdown of caching vs. mmap pages, etc, by looking >at the page queues. > >-DG > >David Greenman >Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org >Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com >Pave the road of life with opportunities. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message