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Date:      Tue, 26 Feb 2002 00:22:19 -0700
From:      Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us>
To:        Lord Raiden <raiden23@netzero.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Flush Memory 
Message-ID:  <200202260722.g1Q7MJD4019856@fedde.littleton.co.us>
In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20020226015135.009582c0@pop.netzero.net> 

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On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 01:58:24 -0500  Lord Raiden wrote:
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 | I'm looking for something that will go in and flush the physical memory
 | every hour and clear out any memory that isn't locked by a given 
 | process.  Basically memory that can be freed up and isn't needed 
 | anymore.  I know they have a program called "freemem" that does something 
 | similar to this on windoze, but I'm just needing to totally clean out the 
 | dead, abandoned, orphaned, or unused physical memory without dumping it to 
 | the swap file to maximize available memory.  Any ideas?  Thanks.
 +------------------

Processes that are not running do not take memory.   You have zombie
processes, some other kind of run away process or are making in
effective use of an mfs file system.   Look at the output of the top, ps
and df commands to see if you can find the culprit.

--
    Chris Fedde

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