Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 16:06:29 -0500 From: Damian Gerow <dgerow@afflictions.org> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: where did all my memory go? Message-ID: <20050216210629.GB718@afflictions.org> In-Reply-To: <4213B3C8.3090508@centtech.com> References: <1108584730.95661.12.camel@server.mcneil.com> <20050216201716.GA28436@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <4213B3C8.3090508@centtech.com>
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Thus spake Eric Anderson (anderson@centtech.com) [16/02/05 16:02]: : >On a system that has been up for any significant time, free memory : >should be very small since free memory is wasted. My guess is that it : >is disk cache and that one of the nightly jobs accessed enough stuff to : >fill it. : : Speaking of this - is there a way to flush the disk cache? sync(8)? But, AFAIK, this doesn't flush the cache held by the HD itself, just that FreeBSD itself has performed all the writes.home | help
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