Where is the memory
Chuck Swiger
cswiger at mac.com
Tue Jul 5 18:15:58 GMT 2005
scuba at centroin.com.br wrote:
[ ... ]
> My problem is that I think something in the system is allocating
> memory and not releasing it.
The kernel will attempt to use all but a little RAM reserved as free space to
cache stuff from disk, unless and until that memory is needed for something else.
It is possible that something you run, or FreeBSD itself, has a memory leak,
but if so, you'd see process sizes and swap usage grow until they hit a limit
or exhaust the available resources. You're not using any swap, so it's not
evident that there is a problem.
> The same applications used to run on a Freebsd 4.7 BOX with 1GB
> RAM, and only in some few cases had to swap out.
> Now, I´m moving to another machine with 2GB RAM, and I´m seeing
> where is the extra memory. I expected to have more free memory now.
Free memory is wasted memory.
--
-Chuck
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