Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:07:08 +0000 From: "Wojciech A. Koszek" <wkoszek@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, shoesoft@gmx.net Subject: Re: Possible memory leak? Message-ID: <20070320140707.GA36789@FreeBSD.czest.pl> In-Reply-To: <200703200944.l2K9i7YC044370@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <200703181619.53167.shoesoft@gmx.net> <200703200944.l2K9i7YC044370@lurza.secnetix.de>
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On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 10:44:07AM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Stefan Ehmann wrote: > > Sometimes I'm noticing very high memory usage. Nearly my whole memory (1GB) is > > used although I'm running my usual set of processes - normally memory usage [..] > How do you measure "memory usage"? The numbers from top(1) > are mostly meaningless. Personally I think top should be > removed from FreeBSD, because it confuses many people (in > fact I think _most_ people don't interpret the numbers > correctly), but some people seem to be in love with it. :-) You can obtain reliable output from vmstat(8): vmstat -m vmstat -z -- Wojciech A. Koszek wkoszek@FreeBSD.org http://FreeBSD.czest.pl/dunstan/
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