Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 18:20:03 -0400 From: "JK" <jdkullmann@aliencamel.com> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>,Nguyen Danh Hieu <ndh.21march@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Programs don't free memory Message-ID: <web-20518896@aliencamel.com> In-Reply-To: <20060107215109.GB2286@flame.pc> References: <f0192ed90601071251g244f6577g@mail.gmail.com> <20060107215109.GB2286@flame.pc>
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On Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:51:09 +0200 Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote: > On 2006-01-07 20:51, Nguyen Danh Hieu <ndh.21march@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi everybody >> Sorry for my bad English but I have a question.I have 512Mb memory >>on my >> PC but as I realize at starting my system have about 100Mb active >>memory, >> but when the system have worked for a while there is no free memory >>on my >> system ( about 350Mb inactive) As I understand this means some >>programs ( >> like kdeinit) don't want to free memory after workes. Is this true? >>How can >> I fix th??s problem out? > > "free memory is memory wasted". > >For a better, more lengthy and more detailed explanation of this, >please > see the excellent article of Matt Dillon that describes ``virtual >memory'' > and how it works in FreeBSD: LOL I've we've always said ''virtual memory is free memory!'' ;-)
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