Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:26:40 -0500 From: Tim Kellers <timothyk@wallnet.com> To: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RAM/Memory resources on 7 STABLE Message-ID: <4970DF70.7040504@wallnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20090116182702.67853017@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <4970C565.1000304@njit.edu> <20090116182702.67853017@gumby.homeunix.com>
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Thanks to all who responded. I am familiar with the FAQ and what it says about memory handling. This is my first time with installed RAM over 8 Gig in an AMD environment so I was just making sure there wasn't something going on that looked odd to anyone else. Tim RW wrote: > On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:35:33 -0500 > Tim Kellers <kellers@njit.edu> wrote: > > > >> 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. >> > > FreeBSD has worked like that for a long time, it doesn't free memory as > long as there's a better use for it. It just maintains a few percent > free for interrupt handling. > > It's in the FAQ. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > >
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