From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 16 18: 5:10 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 5415837B401 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 18:05:09 -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 A784D43E4A for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 18:05:08 -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 21:05:15 -0500 Reply-To: From: "aSe" To: "FreeBSD-Questions" Subject: RE: memory loss Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 21:05:13 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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) In-Reply-To: <20021217014157.GA9273@gothmog.gr> 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 >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 =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. > >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-FREEM= EM > >> 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 Strange, I remember looking at the faq, guess I'm an idiot. Thank you = for the help! :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message