Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 16:12:33 -0800 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: brian@mediacity.com (Brian Litzinger) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: My free memory is shrinking away Message-ID: <199503170012.QAA00388@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 16 Mar 95 15:58:05 PST." <m0rpPQb-000rbvC@easynet.com>
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>I just ftp'd xperfmon++ from ftp.cdrom.com. Kudos to the person who ported >it. > >While I've been sitting here running it on an idle machine, the Free Memory >field has been slowly marching down from 800 to 452 at a regular rate. > >Is this the expected behavior or do I have a memory leak somewhere? > >The network is active, hey is the Free Memory field just turned yellow. > >I'm running SNAP 021095. > >The machine is idle other than seeing network traffic not destined for it. There are two classes of 'free' memory..."cached pages" - which are clean pages, not mapped into any process that are primarily intended to cache file data, and free pages which contain nothing. I suspect that xperfmon isn't reporting 'cached' pages. -DG
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