From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 13 8:24:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.netcologne.de (mail2.netcologne.de [194.8.194.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70CFC37C249 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 08:24:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pherman@frenchfries.net) Received: from bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de (dial-195-14-233-105.netcologne.de [195.14.233.105]) by mail2.netcologne.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA04832; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 17:24:49 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (localhost.security.at12.de [127.0.0.1]) by bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id e6DFOff02059; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 17:24:42 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 17:24:41 +0200 (CEST) From: Paul Herman To: Rick Hamell 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 On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Rick Hamell wrote: > > > > 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. :( Not resident (physical) memory. What you might be seeing (VSZ) is just "memory on paper" and isn't counted as "active". I can't speak for what netscape is doing, but this is the case for zombie processes. -Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message