From owner-freebsd-stable Thu May 9 7:20:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from home.24cl.com (174.113.sn.ct.dsl.thebiz.net [216.238.113.174]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3855937B40A for ; Thu, 9 May 2002 07:20:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ntmm (unknown [63.119.50.193]) by home.24cl.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B745A2B27E; Thu, 9 May 2002 10:20:50 -0400 (EDT) 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> X-Mailer: Calypso Version 3.30.00.00 (1) Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 10:20:50 -0400 Reply-To: myraq@mgm51.com From: "MikeM" To: "Erik Trulsson" Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Steadily increasing memory usage on a lightly loaded server Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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