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Date:      Thu, 13 Jul 2000 08:08:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Rick Hamell <hamellr@aracnet.com>
To:        Paul Herman <pherman@frenchfries.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: what is soaking up memory?
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0007130756450.3078-100000@shell1.aracnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007131637270.229-100000@bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de>

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> > > Stopping apache, raven and minivend (only things running to speak of) only
> > > frees about 15MB, so what's got the other 180MB or so?  ps doesn't show
> > > anything odd running, and interestingly the % memory used by task shown in
> > > ps only totals to about 32%.
> > 
> > 	Does top show any zombie processes? 
> 
> Zombie processes don't take up any memory(*).

	They seem to on my machine... or at least Netscape's does. It
could be the parent taking up memory and not releasing it when it's killed
though. I've not had the time to really investigate it. :(


						Rick




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