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Date:      Thu, 9 May 2002 16:21:06 +0200
From:      Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To:        MikeM <MyRaQ@mgm51.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Steadily increasing memory usage on a lightly loaded server
Message-ID:  <20020509142106.GA28408@student.uu.se>
In-Reply-To: <20020509140719.GA28169@student.uu.se>
References:  <200205090919510568.03BA6562@sentry.24cl.com> <20020509140719.GA28169@student.uu.se>

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On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 04:07:19PM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 09:19:51AM -0400, MikeM wrote:
> > I'm running a web server that is lightly loaded, only about 15MB of
> > bandwidth usage per day.  Ever since the recent kernel patches, I
> > have been noticing that the memory usage is slowly, but surely,
> > notching up.  The server has about 700MB of memory.  About a day


> 
> The memory that is marked as 'Inactive' is also available for
> allocation just as the 'Free' memory.

> 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.

Also see questions 16.1 and 16.2 in the FAQ which cover this.
( http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/misc.html )






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