From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 4 17:04:23 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59D3C16A41F for ; Fri, 4 Nov 2005 17:04:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (hobbiton.shire.net [166.70.252.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B48C43D45 for ; Fri, 4 Nov 2005 17:04:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from [67.161.222.227] (helo=[192.168.99.68]) by hobbiton.shire.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.51) id 1EY4zG-0001dV-9J; Fri, 04 Nov 2005 10:04:22 -0700 In-Reply-To: <436B8D1A.3080000@wanadoo.fr> References: <436B8D1A.3080000@wanadoo.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <57EBF11D-232A-4A0C-9BDC-949968EDF8DE@shire.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 10:04:22 -0700 To: edward X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 67.161.222.227 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: chad@shire.net X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on hobbiton.shire.net); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD not giving back memory X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 17:04:23 -0000 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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad@shire.net