From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 16 16:12:49 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id QAA04554 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 16:12:49 -0800 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA04547 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 16:12:42 -0800 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin.Root.COM [198.145.90.18]) by Root.COM (8.6.8/8.6.5) with ESMTP id QAA15025; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 16:12:34 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.11/8.6.5) with SMTP id QAA00388; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 16:12:34 -0800 Message-Id: <199503170012.QAA00388@corbin.Root.COM> X-Authentication-Warning: corbin.Root.COM: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: brian@mediacity.com (Brian Litzinger) cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: My free memory is shrinking away In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 16 Mar 95 15:58:05 PST." From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 16:12:33 -0800 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >I just ftp'd xperfmon++ from ftp.cdrom.com. Kudos to the person who ported >it. > >While I've been sitting here running it on an idle machine, the Free Memory >field has been slowly marching down from 800 to 452 at a regular rate. > >Is this the expected behavior or do I have a memory leak somewhere? > >The network is active, hey is the Free Memory field just turned yellow. > >I'm running SNAP 021095. > >The machine is idle other than seeing network traffic not destined for it. There are two classes of 'free' memory..."cached pages" - which are clean pages, not mapped into any process that are primarily intended to cache file data, and free pages which contain nothing. I suspect that xperfmon isn't reporting 'cached' pages. -DG