From owner-freebsd-stable Thu May 9 7:21:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mailb.telia.com (mailb.telia.com [194.22.194.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 370AB37B40B for ; Thu, 9 May 2002 07:21:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from d1o913.telia.com (d1o913.telia.com [195.252.44.241]) by mailb.telia.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g49EL7k22741 for ; Thu, 9 May 2002 16:21:07 +0200 (CEST) Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (h53n2fls20o913.telia.com [212.181.163.53]) by d1o913.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA26746 for ; Thu, 9 May 2002 16:21:07 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 28424 invoked by uid 1001); 9 May 2002 14:21:07 -0000 Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 16:21:06 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: MikeM Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Steadily increasing memory usage on a lightly loaded server Message-ID: <20020509142106.GA28408@student.uu.se> Mail-Followup-To: MikeM , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <200205090919510568.03BA6562@sentry.24cl.com> <20020509140719.GA28169@student.uu.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020509140719.GA28169@student.uu.se> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i 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 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 ) -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message