RAM/Memory resources on 7 STABLE

Wojciech Puchar wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl
Fri Jan 16 13:23:17 PST 2009


> When I boot this machine it usually shows (in top) about 11 G Free in the 
> Mem: line
>
> The machine, in this snippet, has been up for 5 days 22 hours and change and 
> it now shows 1436M free in the Mem: line
> I've been watching the number and it has been slowly decreasing over the 5 
> days since its last boot.  It looks like as the Free line trends down, the 
> Inact value trends up to keep the total Mem used at the installed 12G

ALL unused memory is used as disk cache in FreeBSD.


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