Strange networking behaviour (memory leak?)

[Lowell Gilbert]

Bill Moran <wmoran at potentialtech.com> writes:

> Adam wrote:
> >>FreeBSD is pretty smart about memory.  In the top display you see active,
> >>inactive, cache, buffer, wired, and free memory.  The memory that's actually
> >>free is really the sum of inactive, buffer, cache, and free.  The free
> >>memory is free immediately, those other three can become free with very,
> >>very little effort on the part of the kernel, but if you call up the same
> >>application again and it's still in inactive memory, it'll start up quicker
> >>than if it has to reload it from disk.
> >>Free memory is wasted memory.
> > Wow, thanks for the clarifications (and education). I actually very
> > glad
> > you explained this to me. You'll have to excuse my ignorance on some
> > topics; my lack of experience is sometimes glaringly obvious.
> 
> Don't worry about it.  If you search the list archives, I think you'll see
> me asking the same question a number of years ago, and getting a similarly
> helpful answer.

Which explains why this is in the FAQ...

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