memory loss
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]] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: memory loss
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
RE: memory loss
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! :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
