From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 30 17:59:01 2006 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 0FB8C16A4DA for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:59:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jordilin@gmail.com) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.231]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68C9143D45 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:59:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jordilin@gmail.com) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i21so114337wra for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 10:58:59 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=JLnmiWhUvktjIh6n9TsIxIw/4P4LWRyTQmgDtkL216qwnKX39pYJySh+ORBBM/O/aap6c4B/MoWQIVda+Ims5iSf9vCIxbxcLA0La9L7dnKlgT2JvTOO6jhG4XBumaH00rhAzcSiGRJUHhX9LDaBit0oOgyK4KzSatNAKfo/0+k= Received: by 10.65.176.7 with SMTP id d7mr1100149qbp; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 10:58:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.231.11 with HTTP; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 10:58:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <94ff3700608301058r1b0f2308u7f7b9e86f55b610f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:58:58 +0200 From: "Jordi Carrillo" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Install then reboot 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: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:59:01 -0000 When I compile a new program from ports, freebsd takes quite a lot of RAM. Is that something right or it's a flaw? It does happen to you? The main problem is that not all memory used in compilation is freed, so it can be a problem (meaning rebooting) after compiling a very big software such as openoffice or gnome. -- http://jordilin.wordpress.com