From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 16 18:05:45 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3654106564A for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:05:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kellers@njit.edu) Received: from mail-gw4.njit.edu (mail.njit.edu [128.235.251.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA0EF8FC0C for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:05:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kellers@njit.edu) Received: from gilgamesh.maestro (dhcp114-134.njit.edu [128.235.114.134]) by mail-gw4.njit.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n0GHYUDD016689 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:34:35 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4970C565.1000304@njit.edu> Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:35:33 -0500 From: Tim Kellers User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071217) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: RAM/Memory resources on 7 STABLE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:05:46 -0000 My Machine: Dell 2850 PE w/ 12 GB of Ram www# uname -a FreeBSD www 7.1-STABLE FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE #2: Tue Jan 6 19:24:57 EST 2009 root@www:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DELL64 amd64 When I boot this machine it usually shows (in top) about 11 G Free in the Mem: line The machine, in this snippet, has been up for 5 days 22 hours and change and it now shows 1436M free in the Mem: line I've been watching the number and it has been slowly decreasing over the 5 days since its last boot. It looks like as the Free line trends down, the Inact value trends up to keep the total Mem used at the installed 12G I've never noticed this (the slow decline of Free) before on any machine I've had. Maybe that just means it has happened and I haven't noticed it, but I don't know. Is anyone familiar with this or if it means trouble or what might be the cause? Thanks Tim last pid: 67240; load averages: 0.16, 0.14, 0.10 up 5+22:44:26 12:32:54 109 processes: 1 running, 107 sleeping, 1 zombie CPU 0: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 1.5% system, 0.0% interrupt, 98.5% idle CPU 1: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 1.1% system, 0.0% interrupt, 98.9% idle CPU 2: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 1.1% system, 0.8% interrupt, 98.1% idle CPU 3: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 100% idle Mem: 383M Active, 9507M Inact, 424M Wired, 129M Cache, 214M Buf, 1447M Free Swap: 2014M Total, 2014M Free