Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 09:34:47 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: ee96199@tom.fe.up.pt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RAM usage Message-ID: <199704041434.JAA25607@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.96.970404100618.3330A-100000@tom.fe.up.pt> from "ee96199@tom.fe.up.pt" at "Apr 4, 97 10:10:52 am"
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> > Since I moved from Linux to FreeBSD I was a bit surprised when I found out > that FreeBSD programs use far more memory that their similars in Linux. > > At the moment I have 16MB of RAM and with only 9 processes running > (3 gettys, syslogd, cron, inetd and system procs like swapper or init) > I only get (with top) 7MB of free memory particioned by 5MB for cache > and 2MB for buffer... > > The strange thing is that a 'ps aux' shows that this 9 processes use > 4MB. > > Is this normal? > Yes, note that the "cache" memory is almost the same as "free" memory in other OSes. FreeBSD aggressively caches file contents (both executables and data files.) John
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