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Thread-Topic: free memory keeps going down on 5.4-release
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From: "Roselyn Lee" <rosel@verniernetworks.com>
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Subject: free memory keeps going down on 5.4-release
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Hi,

We're running freebsd 5-4 release and notice that an idle system's free =
memroy keeps decreasing.  The system has 1 GB memory and the free mem =
starts at ~700M and goes down steadily until it hits 2M and stays there. =
 After that bringing up more apps on the system doesn't seem to make the =
free memory any smaller.  I checked top and vmstat -m, vmstat -z and =
can't see where all that memory is going.  Does freebsd use memory for =
disk caching that is not accounted for in these stats?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Roselyn