Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 09:56:41 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Adam <blueeskimo@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange networking behaviour (memory leak?) Message-ID: <3EA69B99.4030201@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <1051069331.88928.5.camel@jake> References: <20030422004530.CAAB.BLUEESKIMO@gmx.net> <3EA53661.6010007@potentialtech.com> <1051069331.88928.5.camel@jake>
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Adam wrote: >>FreeBSD is pretty smart about memory. In the top display you see active, >>inactive, cache, buffer, wired, and free memory. The memory that's actually >>free is really the sum of inactive, buffer, cache, and free. The free >>memory is free immediately, those other three can become free with very, >>very little effort on the part of the kernel, but if you call up the same >>application again and it's still in inactive memory, it'll start up quicker >>than if it has to reload it from disk. >>Free memory is wasted memory. > > Wow, thanks for the clarifications (and education). I actually very glad > you explained this to me. You'll have to excuse my ignorance on some > topics; my lack of experience is sometimes glaringly obvious. Don't worry about it. If you search the list archives, I think you'll see me asking the same question a number of years ago, and getting a similarly helpful answer. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com
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