Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:27:02 +0000 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RAM/Memory resources on 7 STABLE Message-ID: <20090116182702.67853017@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <4970C565.1000304@njit.edu> References: <4970C565.1000304@njit.edu>
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On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:35:33 -0500 Tim Kellers <kellers@njit.edu> wrote: > 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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