Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 17:00:22 -0600 From: Eric F Crist <ecrist@secure-computing.net> To: "Colin J. Raven" <colin@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Memory Question Message-ID: <E7A0FAA5-65B6-11D9-A40A-000D9333E43C@secure-computing.net> In-Reply-To: <20050113204937.D802@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> References: <20050113204937.D802@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl>
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--Apple-Mail-1-648487703 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On Jan 13, 2005, at 2:01 PM, Colin J. Raven wrote: > 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 Colin, If you want to be made fun of, this is the type of question that will push you in that direction (references 'Thanks You!' thread). ;) Your colleague is probably running more applications/services than you, which is why he has less available memory. To use up some of that memory, simply start up some more applications. :) have a nice day! _______________________________________________________ Eric F Crist "I am so smart, S.M.R.T!" Secure Computing Networks -Homer J Simpson --Apple-Mail-1-648487703 content-type: application/pgp-signature; x-mac-type=70674453; name=PGP.sig content-description: This is a digitally signed message part content-disposition: inline; filename=PGP.sig content-transfer-encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkHm/YcACgkQRAAY9knOW+oiIQCeL0oph/pDtbOgGhj7cyiFcd4X m4wAnjxOcJ+3vRqkbLOmMl16Iz0dEBLk =NfpZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail-1-648487703--
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