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Date:      Fri, 04 Nov 2005 18:23:00 +0100
From:      edward <kouye@wanadoo.fr>
To:        "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD not giving back memory
Message-ID:  <436B98F4.4080701@wanadoo.fr>
In-Reply-To: <57EBF11D-232A-4A0C-9BDC-949968EDF8DE@shire.net>
References:  <436B8D1A.3080000@wanadoo.fr> <57EBF11D-232A-4A0C-9BDC-949968EDF8DE@shire.net>

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I use a Superkaramba applet.
Edward

Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
> 
> On Nov 4, 2005, at 9:32 AM, edward wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> I use 5.4 Stable on an i386 machine with xorg 6.8.2 and kde 3.4.0.  I 
>> have been doing a number of RAM intensive tasks such as  converting 
>> video files and moving big files (7 or 8 Gb) back and  forth over a 
>> LAN. I have also installed and configured Wine,  although I haven't 
>> done much with it just yet. I have 26 Gb on my  FreeBSD partition 
>> (excluding swap) that is used up at 78%.
>> I notice that when quitting all applications, the RAM used is not  
>> released and 476 Mb of RAM out of 512 Mb available are still  
>> indicated as being in use. Is FreeBSD not giving back memory when  
>> processes are over ?
> 
> 
> How are you determining this?
> 
> Chad
> 
> 
>> Edward
>>
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> 
> ---
> Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
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