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From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To: Ramon A Hermon <rahermon@iastate.edu>
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Subject: Re: Mem Use
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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

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