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 ) -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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