From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 25 23:22:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (cfedde.dsl.frii.net [216.17.139.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3230737B400 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 23:22:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g1Q7MJD4019856; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 00:22:20 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200202260722.g1Q7MJD4019856@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: Lord Raiden Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Flush Memory In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20020226015135.009582c0@pop.netzero.net> From: Chris Fedde Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 00:22:19 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 01:58:24 -0500 Lord Raiden wrote: +------------------ | 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message