From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Oct 14 20:15:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA09321 for bugs-outgoing; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 20:15:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs) Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (spinner.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA09313 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 20:15:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@spinner.netplex.com.au) Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (localhost.dialix.com.au [127.0.0.1]) by spinner.netplex.com.au (8.8.7/8.8.7/Spinner) with ESMTP id LAA07899; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 11:14:00 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@spinner.netplex.com.au) Message-Id: <199710150314.LAA07899@spinner.netplex.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: dg@root.com cc: Joe Davida , bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Memory usage In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 14 Oct 1997 19:19:28 MST." <199710150219.TAA02736@implode.root.com> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 11:14:00 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk David Greenman wrote: > > I am wondering where is all my free memory going. Config file > > attached at bottom. > > I have 128 megabytes. Here is what vmstat says: > > I don't see a anything wrong with the stats you provided. There were 0 hard > page faults, and "free" memory of 82MB is unusually high - it tells me that > the system hasn't been up for very long, else the 'free' memory would be > entirely consumed by the disk cache. > > -DG As they say, "Free memory is wasted memory"... > David Greenman > Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project > Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm Netplex Consulting