From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 13 8: 8: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail3.aracnet.com (mail3.aracnet.com [216.99.193.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E58C737BE2C for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 08:08:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@aracnet.com) Received: from shell1.aracnet.com (shell1.aracnet.com [216.99.193.21]) by mail3.aracnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA31471; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 08:08:07 -0700 Received: by shell1.aracnet.com (8.9.3) id IAA15700; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 08:08:03 -0700 Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 08:08:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Hamell To: Paul Herman Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what is soaking up memory? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > Stopping apache, raven and minivend (only things running to speak of) only > > > frees about 15MB, so what's got the other 180MB or so? ps doesn't show > > > anything odd running, and interestingly the % memory used by task shown in > > > ps only totals to about 32%. > > > > Does top show any zombie processes? > > Zombie processes don't take up any memory(*). They seem to on my machine... or at least Netscape's does. It could be the parent taking up memory and not releasing it when it's killed though. I've not had the time to really investigate it. :( Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message