RE: memory loss

2002-12-16 Thread aSe
>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

Strange, I remember looking at the faq, guess I'm an idiot. Thank you for the help! :)



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Re: memory loss

2002-12-16 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
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


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memory loss

2002-12-16 Thread aSe
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. 

Also, if its inactive memory, isn't that the same as free?

$top

last pid: 73315;  load averages:  1.09,  1.03,  1.01  up 17+03:48:25  20:03:50
31 processes:  2 running, 29 sleeping
CPU states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  100% system,  0.0% interrupt,  0.0% idle
Mem: 26M Active, 388M Inact, 55M Wired, 27M Cache, 61M Buf, 4580K Free
Swap: 256M Total, 256M Free

Thank you, Gordon Keesler [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]



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