In the last episode (Nov 06), Roselyn Lee said:
> We're running freebsd 5-4 release and notice that an idle system's
> free memroy keeps decreasing. The system has 1 GB memory and the
> free mem starts at ~700M and goes down steadily until it hits 2M and
> stays there. After that bringing up more apps on the system doesn't
> seem to make the free memory any smaller. I checked top and vmstat
> -m, vmstat -z and can't see where all that memory is going. Does
> freebsd use memory for disk caching that is not accounted for in
> these stats?
Yes, free memory is used as cache. As "Free" decreases, you will see
"Inact, "Cache" and "Buf" increase.
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Dan Nelson
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