Date: 23 Apr 2003 13:54:22 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange networking behaviour (memory leak?) Message-ID: <44u1cpumk1.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <3EA69B99.4030201@potentialtech.com> References: <20030422004530.CAAB.BLUEESKIMO@gmx.net> <3EA53661.6010007@potentialtech.com> <1051069331.88928.5.camel@jake> <3EA69B99.4030201@potentialtech.com>
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Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> writes: > 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. Which explains why this is in the FAQ... http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#TOP-FREEMEM
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