Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 10:20:50 -0400 From: "MikeM" <MyRaQ@mgm51.com> To: "Erik Trulsson" <ertr1013@student.uu.se> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Steadily increasing memory usage on a lightly loaded server Message-ID: <200205091020500973.03F23BEC@sentry.24cl.com> In-Reply-To: <20020509140719.GA28169@student.uu.se> References: <200205090919510568.03BA6562@sentry.24cl.com> <20020509140719.GA28169@student.uu.se>
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On 5/9/02 at 4:07 PM Erik Trulsson wrote: |[snip] |Looks normal to me. | |The memory that is marked as 'Inactive' is also available for |allocation just as the 'Free' memory. |In practice you can just add together the 'Inactive' and the 'Free' |memory to get the total of free memory. | |The 'Inactive' memory contains data that *can* be reused (such as the |code for programs that has recently been run) but that can also be |thrown away without further notice if necessary. | | |I wouldn't worry about swap being used either. FreeBSD tends to write |some things to swap before it is actually *necessary* to do it. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Thanks to all the help from everyone, both on- and off-list. I now understand the behavior to be normal. What sent up the warning flare= for me was that I had not seen this behavior prior to the recent patches,= so I was concerned that I may have broken something. ;-) Thanks again for the phenomenal support! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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