Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 10:04:22 -0700 From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> To: edward <kouye@wanadoo.fr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD not giving back memory Message-ID: <57EBF11D-232A-4A0C-9BDC-949968EDF8DE@shire.net> In-Reply-To: <436B8D1A.3080000@wanadoo.fr> References: <436B8D1A.3080000@wanadoo.fr>
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On Nov 4, 2005, at 9:32 AM, edward wrote: > Hi all, > I use 5.4 Stable on an i386 machine with xorg 6.8.2 and kde 3.4.0. > I have been doing a number of RAM intensive tasks such as > converting video files and moving big files (7 or 8 Gb) back and > forth over a LAN. I have also installed and configured Wine, > although I haven't done much with it just yet. I have 26 Gb on my > FreeBSD partition (excluding swap) that is used up at 78%. > I notice that when quitting all applications, the RAM used is not > released and 476 Mb of RAM out of 512 Mb available are still > indicated as being in use. Is FreeBSD not giving back memory when > processes are over ? How are you determining this? Chad > Edward > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad@shire.net
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