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Date:      Tue, 17 Dec 2002 03:41:57 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        aSe <aSe@SysFail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: memory loss
Message-ID:  <20021217014157.GA9273@gothmog.gr>
In-Reply-To: <KCECKLBMJCEIIOLIPBPEAEKDCCAA.aSe@SysFail.com>
References:  <KCECKLBMJCEIIOLIPBPEAEKDCCAA.aSe@SysFail.com>

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On 2002-12-16 20:30, aSe <aSe@SysFail.com> 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


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