From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 13 20:01:28 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E028E16A4CE for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:01:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from t-x.dignus.nl (t-x.dignus.nl [83.219.88.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 752AC43D58 for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:01:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from colin@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl) Received: from localhost (localhost.dignus.nl [127.0.0.1]) by t-x.dignus.nl (Safehouse) with ESMTP id 4B7262841A for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 21:01:41 +0100 (CET) Received: from kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl (cjr-home [62.251.72.148]) by t-x.dignus.nl (Safehouse) with ESMTP id 9703728419 for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 21:01:36 +0100 (CET) Received: from kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl (localhost.kozy-kabin.nl [127.0.0.1]) by kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F18D16231 for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 21:01:19 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (colin@localhost)j0DK1JUh046504 for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 21:01:19 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from colin@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl) Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 21:01:19 +0100 From: "Colin J. Raven" To: FreeBSD Questions Message-ID: <20050113204937.D802@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by RemSPAMd at ph230.plushosting.nl Subject: Memory Question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:01:29 -0000 I'm wondering seriously about this top output: (2.6 GhZ Celeron 1GB RAM) Mem: 52M Active, 316M Inact, 134M Wired, 111M Buf, 494M Free Swap: 2023M Total, 2023M Free This does add up to the 1GB of memory that my 5.3-RELEASE box has, that's not my question. I always understood in FreeBSD that "Free Memory is wasted memory" I compared this to the 5.3-RELEASE box of a colleague. AMD Athlon (1800-something-or-other) also 1GB RAM Mem: 467M Active, 224M Inact, 201M Wired, 33M Cache, 111M Buf, 71M Free Swap: 4096M Total, 1672K Used, 4094M Free Other than the fact that swap doesn't add up (or doesn't seem to) the box of my colleague seems to have a more "sensible" (classic) amount of free memory. Is there something I can do in order to "optimize" - which in this case paradoxically would seem to mean "reduce" the amount of free memory? Regards & TIA, -Colin