Where is the memory

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 02:59:55PM -0300, scuba at centroin.com.br wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Hornet wrote:
> 
> |In top, if you type in "u" it will prompt you for an account which you
> |can monitor the processes and mem. Of course, this will not work for
> |apps that are opened under different credentials.
> 
> 	And does not change the amount of total free memory.
> 	My problem is that I think something in the system is allocating
> memory and not releasing it.
> 	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".  When something needs it, it will be
reallocated from other areas.  This is a FAQ.

Kris
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