From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 16 17:42: 8 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 EC42C37B401 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 17:42:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0212B43EC5 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 17:42:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-b163.otenet.gr [212.205.244.171]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBH1g0Fn000624; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 03:42:01 +0200 (EET) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBH1fx4l009380; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 03:42:00 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gBH1fv5w009379; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 03:41:57 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 03:41:57 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: aSe Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: memory loss Message-ID: <20021217014157.GA9273@gothmog.gr> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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 On 2002-12-16 20:30, aSe wrote: > Lately I've seem tobe looseing a large amount of memory, I was at > 180M free, now its down to ~45M. I know Inact = 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. This is answered in the FAQ already. Point your favorite browser at: http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.html#TOP-FREEMEM > Also, if its inactive memory, isn't that the same as free? No. A lot of things about the way memory management works in FreeBSD is explained in the excellent article ``Design elements of the FreeBSD VM system'' by Matt Dillon. Find it at: http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/vm-design/ - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message