RAM/Memory resources on 7 STABLE

[Tim Kellers]

Thanks to all who responded. I am familiar with the FAQ and what it says 
about memory handling. This is my first time with installed RAM over 8 
Gig in an AMD environment so I was just making sure there wasn't 
something going on that looked odd to anyone else.

Tim


RW wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:35:33 -0500
> Tim Kellers <kellers at njit.edu> wrote:
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>> I've never noticed this (the slow decline of Free) before on any
>> machine I've had.  Maybe that just means it has happened and I
>> haven't noticed it, but I don't know.
>>     
>
> FreeBSD has worked like that for a long time, it doesn't free memory as
> long as there's a better use for it. It just maintains a few percent
> free for interrupt handling. 
>
> It's in the FAQ.
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