From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 16 21:23:17 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 A3CB11065670 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:23:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl [IPv6:2001:4070:101:2::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D37B68FC14 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:23:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n0GLN7iA010344; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:23:07 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from localhost (wojtek@localhost) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) with ESMTP id n0GLN6v8010341; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:23:07 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:23:06 +0100 (CET) From: Wojciech Puchar To: Tim Kellers In-Reply-To: <4970C565.1000304@njit.edu> Message-ID: <20090116222249.S10333@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <4970C565.1000304@njit.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 21:23:17 -0000 > 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 ALL unused memory is used as disk cache in FreeBSD.