On 2002-12-16 20:30, aSe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lately I've seem tobe looseing a large amount of memory, I was at > 180M free, now its down to ~45M. I know Inact = inactive, but what > would cause large amounts of inactive memory to be 'used'? I went > down the list of top and nothing comes close to adding up to 300m.
This is answered in the FAQ already. Point your favorite browser at: http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.html#TOP-FREEMEM > Also, if its inactive memory, isn't that the same as free? No. A lot of things about the way memory management works in FreeBSD is explained in the excellent article ``Design elements of the FreeBSD VM system'' by Matt Dillon. Find it at: http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/vm-design/ - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
