From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 23 13:48:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA03416 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 13:48:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (pinsoft.internet.co.nz [202.37.141.181] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA03400 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 13:48:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from tui.pinnacle.co.nz (tui.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.3]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA22322; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 08:50:34 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 08:50:34 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen To: User Measl cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Memory Leak in 2.2.5R NFS In-Reply-To: <199806231759.MAA04220@greeves.mfn.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, User Measl wrote: > I am determining usage through TOP. Also, AFAIK, the kernel does > *not* "eat up as much memory as possible for buffers". I believe > that is a Windoze trait... According to the Handbook, there is > an actual (somewhat fixed) algorithm to determine RAM capture. > > But then, who knows, I could be wrong... The question has been asked before, and while my answer is somewhat simplistic, it's essentially correct. The mail archives has quite a few answers by John Dyson on this; try the search on `questions': memory AND john AND dyson Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message