From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 23 06:56:43 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 81A3E37B401 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 06:56:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1a-215.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.170.215]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFC4743F85 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 06:56:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) h3NDuf0n000604; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 09:56:41 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3EA69B99.4030201@potentialtech.com> Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 09:56:41 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030301 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adam References: <20030422004530.CAAB.BLUEESKIMO@gmx.net> <3EA53661.6010007@potentialtech.com> <1051069331.88928.5.camel@jake> In-Reply-To: <1051069331.88928.5.camel@jake> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 13:56:43 -0000 Adam wrote: >>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. Don't worry about it. If you search the list archives, I think you'll see me asking the same question a number of years ago, and getting a similarly helpful answer. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com