where did all my memory go?

[Holger Kipp]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 12:12:10PM -0800, Sean McNeil wrote:
> With a system built yesterday on my amd64, I had plenty of memory
> showing as free when the system completely started up.  Even after
> intense usage I showed lots of free memory in top.  Over night at some
> point all my memory is no longer free but inactive.  Is there anything
> wrong here or is this expected behavior?  ps doesn't show any serious

expected behaviour.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/vm-design/x37.html
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/vm-design/x89.html

Regards,
Holger Kipp