Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 15:08:18 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Ramon A Hermon <rahermon@iastate.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mem Use Message-ID: <20010503150818.A8914@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <003701c0d41c$91c08520$5103ba81@cs.iastate.edu>; from rahermon@iastate.edu on Thu, May 03, 2001 at 05:01:11PM -0500 References: <003701c0d41c$91c08520$5103ba81@cs.iastate.edu>
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--nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 05:01:11PM -0500, Ramon A Hermon wrote: > So why put all this? Because I think something is terribly wrong. > The box has 256MB of RAM but as I look at the memory utilization > all the RAM is used and swap may go to 1%(total swap 515MB) Even after > closing the apps my mem does not come down. No errors are reported :( > Is that a memory leak? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#TOP-FREEMEM Free memory is wasted possiable cache so freebsd doesn't randomly throw things out of memory. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE68dbRXY6L6fI4GtQRAunBAJ9ehVXsEiqzWeI9DzHatEYXpCGosgCgxd04 7hLm8TqtkabgRPn00aYBMmw= =ggJx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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