FreeBSD not giving back memory

[Eric Schuele]

edward wrote:
> I use a Superkaramba applet.
> Edward

I realise you are not using top(1), but....
Superkaramba is most likely reporting things in a similar fasion as 
top... so an excerpt from the FreeBSD FAQ may be in order:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#TOP-FREEMEM

HTH.


> 
> Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
> 
>>
>> On Nov 4, 2005, at 9:32 AM, edward wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>> I use 5.4 Stable on an i386 machine with xorg 6.8.2 and kde 3.4.0.  I 
>>> have been doing a number of RAM intensive tasks such as  converting 
>>> video files and moving big files (7 or 8 Gb) back and  forth over a 
>>> LAN. I have also installed and configured Wine,  although I haven't 
>>> done much with it just yet. I have 26 Gb on my  FreeBSD partition 
>>> (excluding swap) that is used up at 78%.
>>> I notice that when quitting all applications, the RAM used is not  
>>> released and 476 Mb of RAM out of 512 Mb available are still  
>>> indicated as being in use. Is FreeBSD not giving back memory when  
>>> processes are over ?
>>
>>
>>
>> How are you determining this?
>>
>> Chad
>>
>>
>>> Edward
>>>
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Regards,
Eric