From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 21 18:05:53 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56FB51065687 for ; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:05:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from baigsabeeh@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.170]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA5A78FC16 for ; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:05:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from baigsabeeh@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id o4so49229uge.39 for ; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:05:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition; bh=ppEeHBT4qk4DcMCcFf0hXL4lEVkxKzSG6BRlA+Htpy0=; b=W3HxwRd65mwKcZbhcE7MYp4CX9RqwN93gvI9akvTqsjG7f25bGE9r3GvefrFe296IU 6o/dsl4c3ks4HQKyo4qPK8+GMKoXb+PYInoYdIRVSVF/5i1Ot/eEtlpsmZHllyG3xyK+ l1Qmd52fIByXo6J3DeBcCp6dz4G7upWAm6KeE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=RRo9crUz1FAvjKoUdQzMtqSM4Uml3XJBkvhRrVAT71Gau2Xhnkfqi2AGfa6rCQsR+f 9IbMlW0j5IEhVfyzYyYVbOTiib5z1PhEVEE4tRYdeLaGnvMNrCYV5ytBNgcmXuJMcSC7 1ip3NKnFdporz67ytwzwvqueNmaESK+Jur7dY= Received: by 10.67.28.14 with SMTP id f14mr1679125ugj.85.1219341950759; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:05:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.67.10.12 with HTTP; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:05:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:05:50 -0400 From: "Sabeeh Baig" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Memory Usage Stats X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:05:53 -0000 I've been noticing never-before-seen highs in memory usage, since the last time I rebuilt world a bout a week ago. I have 2GB of memory and 2GB of swap space. According to top, a little over 1GB of memory is active, 70MB free, 300MB wired, and the rest inactive. I also have 59MB of swap used. If I close an application, the amount of active memory never decreases and the other stats don't change either. The active figure can't be right even now, as I only have Xfce, Xorg, screen, two zsh session, slurm, irssi, pidgin, mpd, ncmpc, and irssi running. That's usually my normal session and usage has been better before I recompiled. Is it possible that top is displaying the wrong stats? Is there any other utility I could try? I've tried ps auxm, but that's not exactly what I'm looking for. -- "UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity." Sabeeh Ahmed Baig