On Sunday 18 March 2007 20:25:19 Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 04:19:52PM +0100, Stefan Ehmann wrote: > > Sometimes I'm noticing very high memory usage. Nearly my whole memory > > (1GB) is used although I'm running my usual set of processes - normally > > memory usage is much lower. > > > > I killed most processes but memory usage remains high. > > > > Summing the VSZ values of the ps aux output gives about 34MB. top reports > > 316MB active memory. > > > > Where did my memory go? Are there any tools for debugging this? > > This is a FAQ. "free memory is wasted memory".
Sorry for the noise. I somehow thought that's only true for inactive/cache memory and active is different - but obviously I was wrong. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
