Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 17:24:41 +0200 (CEST) From: Paul Herman <pherman@frenchfries.net> To: Rick Hamell <hamellr@aracnet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what is soaking up memory? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007131714450.229-100000@bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0007130756450.3078-100000@shell1.aracnet.com>
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On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Rick Hamell wrote: > > > > Stopping apache, raven and minivend (only things running to speak of) only > > > > frees about 15MB, so what's got the other 180MB or so? ps doesn't show > > > > anything odd running, and interestingly the % memory used by task shown in > > > > ps only totals to about 32%. > > > > > > Does top show any zombie processes? > > > > Zombie processes don't take up any memory(*). > > They seem to on my machine... or at least Netscape's does. It > could be the parent taking up memory and not releasing it when it's killed > though. I've not had the time to really investigate it. :( Not resident (physical) memory. What you might be seeing (VSZ) is just "memory on paper" and isn't counted as "active". I can't speak for what netscape is doing, but this is the case for zombie processes. -Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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