From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 10 12:56:34 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 4C20216A4CE for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 12:56:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from www.wcborstel.nl (wcborstel.demon.nl [82.161.134.53]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BE7F43D1D for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 12:56:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jorn@wcborstel.nl) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www.wcborstel.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DD8140C0; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 13:58:47 +0100 (CET) Received: from www.wcborstel.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (www.wcborstel.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 31664-04; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 13:58:37 +0100 (CET) Received: from www.wcborstel.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www.wcborstel.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECF2140B5; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 13:58:36 +0100 (CET) From: "Jorn Argelo" To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Lu=EDs_Vit=F3rio_Cargn?=ini , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 13:58:36 +0100 Message-Id: <20050210125412.M4080@wcborstel.nl> In-Reply-To: <1108036463.99719.2.camel@shark.xsynapse.com> References: <1107512189.23926.1.camel@shark.xsynapse.com> <444qgsmswf.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <1108036463.99719.2.camel@shark.xsynapse.com> X-Mailer: Open WebMail 2.50 20050106 X-OriginatingIP: 193.172.19.20 (jorn) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at mail.wcborstel.nl Subject: Re: Memory problems 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, 10 Feb 2005 12:56:34 -0000 On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 09:54:23 -0200, Luís Vitório Cargnini wrote > thanks, but the problem is that it's using and even when i kill process > the memory usage remains ontouched and swap never been free. You're comparing the memory management with Windows. BSD and Linux do it completely different. As long as you still have free space in your RAM, it's not going to remove the program from your RAM. Unlike Windows, which kicks it out at the moment the program is being closed. If you run top, you have an memory overview. The active part is the RAM it's really using. The other ones are not really being used but are just stored in case you restart them again. It's kind of the same idea as the cache with an CPU. Why not use all the memory the system has? It's by far a better system then Windows does if you ask me. Jorn > > On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 07:06 -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > Luís Vitório Cargnini writes: > > > > > Solve what? Nothing you've mentioned is a problem. > > > > See the FAQ entry "Why does top show very little free memory even when > > I have very few programs running?": > > http://www.br.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#TOP-FREEMEM > > > > > -- > Thanks & Regards > Luís Vitório Cargnini > Bsc. Computer Science