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Woon Wai Keen @ doubleukay.com writes:
>  The output from top (after stopping services) reads:
>  
>  Mem: 12M Active, 10M Inact, 451M Wired, 1364K Cache, 59M Buf, 11M Free
>  Swap: 1024M Total, 15M Used, 1009M Free, 1% Inuse, 12K In
>  
>  I noticed that the amount of 'wired' memory before and after
>  stopping the services remains the same, at > 400MB. The swap
>  usage went down from ~200MB to 15MB however.

	That does seem excessive.  From my -CURRENT system (admittedly
up less that 24 hours):

Mem: 179M Active, 190M Inact, 93M Wired, 25M Cache, 60M Buf, 7044K Free


					Robert Huff