Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 22:16:07 +0100 From: Stefan Ehmann <shoesoft@gmx.net> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Possible memory leak? Message-ID: <200703182216.09548.shoesoft@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <20070318192519.GA29343@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200703181619.53167.shoesoft@gmx.net> <20070318192519.GA29343@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Sunday 18 March 2007 20:25:19 Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 04:19:52PM +0100, Stefan Ehmann wrote: > > Sometimes I'm noticing very high memory usage. Nearly my whole memory > > (1GB) is used although I'm running my usual set of processes - normally > > memory usage is much lower. > > > > I killed most processes but memory usage remains high. > > > > Summing the VSZ values of the ps aux output gives about 34MB. top reports > > 316MB active memory. > > > > Where did my memory go? Are there any tools for debugging this? > > This is a FAQ. "free memory is wasted memory". Sorry for the noise. I somehow thought that's only true for inactive/cache memory and active is different - but obviously I was wrong.
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