Re: Memory usage weirdness

1999-01-27 Thread John S. Dyson
Dan Root said: Content-Description: Mail message > > Is this normal, or should I look for some process that's thrashing through > vast amounts of pages in short periods of time? > It is normal and expected. A little secret about FreeBSD's VM is that it works on a page demand type timeclock and n

Re: Memory usage weirdness

1999-01-26 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :What would cause more memory to be considered in the active state than :could be accounted for by running processes? : :My main machine (running -current as of the afternoon of Jan 25) has :somewhere between 80 and 100 megs of memory listed as used via ps and top :(which, I presume doesn't ta

Memory usage weirdness

1999-01-26 Thread Dan Root
What would cause more memory to be considered in the active state than could be accounted for by running processes? My main machine (running -current as of the afternoon of Jan 25) has somewhere between 80 and 100 megs of memory listed as used via ps and top (which, I presume doesn't take in to