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Date:      Wed, 13 Jul 2005 21:06:53 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Sean Murphy <smurphy@calarts.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Memory Problem? LEAK?
Message-ID:  <20050714010653.GB67608@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <42D5B2F4.4070203@calarts.edu>
References:  <42D5B2F4.4070203@calarts.edu>

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On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 05:33:56PM -0700, Sean Murphy wrote:
> FreeBSD 5.4 Release
> Kernel is generic with SMP and Quotas
>=20
> I was monitoring the system while running make and i noticed that the=20
> Free Memory would slowly tick down while make is running I figured that=
=20
> was normal.  However when it was finished it did not return the Memory=20
> to Free Status.
>=20
> It must reclaim some RAM because It never touches the swap when I launch=
=20
> a program.  This is a sever not in production yet it has no user base=20
> and no load so I don't see a reason for this.
>=20
> here is an output from w
> 5:29PM  up 1 day,  7:49, 2 users, load averages: 0.01, 0.03, 0.00
>=20
> I am curious why FreeBSD does not free the Inactive RAM?  Is this=20
> Normal?  If so does it ever reclaim the RAM?

Please see the FAQ.

Kris

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