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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: Mem Leak ??
In-Reply-To: <199709190511.WAA13160@slip129-37-223-142.ca.us.ibm.net> from "Joseph I. Davida" at "Sep 18, 97 10:11:20 pm"
To: jd@slip129-37-223-142.ca.us.ibm.net (Joseph I. Davida)
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 02:23:20 -0500 (EST)
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Joseph I. Davida said:
> 
> 	Running FreeBSD Snap 3.0
> 	System is Pentium P5/200MHz, 64 Meg Ram, 512K Cache,
> 	96 Meg Swap space.
> 
> 	X is up and running with the following X apps running:
> 	tvtwm window manager
> 	xbiff
> 	xclock
> 	icon manager
> 	virtual desktop
> 	Xsysinfo
> 	vmstat
> 
> 	When I try to run netscape (version 4.3b8), I get a message
> 	from netscape that I am out of memory. SO I looked at what
> 	vmstat was saying:
> 
>  procs      memory     page                    disks      faults      cpu
>  r b w     avm   fre  flt  re  pi  po  fr  sr s0 c0 w0   in   sy  cs us sy id
>  1 0 0 4033532 21008   13   0   0   0  14   0  1  0  0  166  172  30  1  0 99
>  0 0 0 4029456 21008    2   0   0   0   0   0  0  0  0  113   76   9  0  0 100
>  0 0 0 4029812 21008   30   0   0   0  33   0  1  0  0  165 1529  48  3  1 96
>  0 0 0 4029812 21008   13   0   0   0  14   0  1  0  0  109   74  10  0  0 100
>  0 0 0 4029812 21008    2   0   0   0   0   0  0  0  0  179  372  55  2  1 97
>  0 0 0 4029812 21008   13   0   0   0  14   0  1  0  0  242 50055  96 16 40 44
>  0 0 0 4029812 21008   18   0   0   0  19   0  0  0  0  139 1467  37  3  1 96
> 
> 
FreeBSD's concept of free memory is orthogonal to what most people consider
free memory to be.  The only way to determine memory capacity on a FreeBSD
box, is to consider paging rates and free swap space.

John