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To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: Help! Memory leak in FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE?! 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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>operations.  The system's memory and disk usage will be pretty inflated
>for the next or 10 minutes, until 2:10am or so.
>
>> Mem: 13M Active, 3156K Inact, 12M Wired, 7158K Buf, 33M Free
>>           ^^^^
>> Swap: 120M Total, 64K Used, 120M Free

   "Active" memory is both a combination of process memory and recently
cached filesystem data; variations in the number can't be used as an
indicator of memory leaks.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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