From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 10 6:48:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chmls18.ne.ipsvc.net (chmls18.ne.ipsvc.net [24.147.1.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED8DD37B402 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 06:48:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.188.158]) by chmls18.ne.ipsvc.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0AEm7G25542 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 09:48:07 -0500 (EST) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.11.6/8.11.4) id g0AEm7O94041; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 09:48:07 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from lowell) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Slow Memory Leak References: From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 10 Jan 2002 09:48:03 -0500 In-Reply-To: mteichta@cisco.com's message of "10 Jan 2002 21:17:50 +0800" Message-ID: <44elkyw9cs.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> Lines: 10 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I see a slow and grdaule decline in Free Memory. Over 48 hours it will > loose approx 300Mb. Without knowing how this decline in free memory was measured, it's impossible to say for sure, but I suspect that this is the Frequently Asked Question "Why does top show very little free memory even when I have very few programs running?" http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#TOP-FREEMEM "free memory is wasted memory" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message