From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 16 17:29:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2A2637B401 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 17:29:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from sysfail.com (24-56-213-122.mdmmi.voyager.net [24.56.213.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BD8643EC5 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 17:29:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from aSe@SysFail.com) Received: from bob ([127.0.0.1]) by sysfail.com ([24.56.213.122]) with SMTP (MDaemon.PRO.v6.5.1.R) for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 20:30:07 -0500 Reply-To: From: "aSe" To: "FreeBSD-Questions" Subject: memory loss Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 20:30:04 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-MDRemoteIP: 127.0.0.1 X-Return-Path: aSe@SysFail.com X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Lately I've seem tobe looseing a large amount of memory, I was at 180M = free, now its down to ~45M. I know Inact =3D inactive, but what would = cause large amounts of inactive memory to be 'used'? I went down the = list of top and nothing comes close to adding up to 300m.=20 Also, if its inactive memory, isn't that the same as free? $top last pid: 73315; load averages: 1.09, 1.03, 1.01 up 17+03:48:25 = 20:03:50 31 processes: 2 running, 29 sleeping CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 100% system, 0.0% interrupt, 0.0% = idle Mem: 26M Active, 388M Inact, 55M Wired, 27M Cache, 61M Buf, 4580K Free Swap: 256M Total, 256M Free Thank you, Gordon Keesler [aSe@SysFail.com] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message