Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 18:54:24 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: "Cheney Brothers, Inc." <cbi@cheneybrothers.com> Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Memory Leak Message-ID: <59313.944067264@axl.noc.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 31 Dec 1999 08:46:14 EST." <01BF536B.812ED780@MIKENEW>
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On Fri, 31 Dec 1999 08:46:14 EST, "Cheney Brothers, Inc." wrote: > I am running 196 megs of ram and after a fresh reboot of the server > I have approx 140 megs free, after an hour I may have 116 megs free and > it continues to go down and down untill I am around 2000K and then it > might go upto 30 megs free and bounce right back down ro 3000K. How do you determine "free memory"? I ask because it's not something you really want a lot of with a UNIX machine. Most of your "free" memory should "go down" after boot in exactly the manner you describe as the buffer cache fills up. This is good for performance. > When it gets real low my cgi's can't run anymore and I have to do a > reboot about once a day. What does "my cgi's can't run anymore" mean? What actually happens? Does Apache run the processes, does it log anything to httpd_errors.log, do they produce _any_ output? My concern is that you have a misunderstanding of "free memory" and are pinning on its low value, the blame for some unrelated problem. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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