Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 09:26:35 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: jb <jb.1234abcd@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD vice OS X memory management Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1204280926040.9361@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <loom.20120426T095813-923@post.gmane.org> References: <loom.20120425T142751-217@post.gmane.org> <2FCC4ECF-DAC2-4701-B392-B0415528A4C7@mac.com> <loom.20120425T202502-789@post.gmane.org> <loom.20120426T065807-118@post.gmane.org> <CA%2BtpaK2JQ3ZkmXZK4v_j4nwssBrz9Hj69kV5=tkmyUxaHGaksg@mail.gmail.com> <loom.20120426T095813-923@post.gmane.org>
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> > "2) Inactive memory (which is memory that has been recently used but is no > longer) is supposed to be seamlessly reclaimed automatically by the OS when > needed for new programs. In practice, I?ve found that this isn?t the case, and > my system slows to a crawl and starts paging out to disk when free memory drops > to zero, even as half of the available RAM (which is a lot) is marked as > inactive. ..." > > Well, this is not a case of a "BSD is dying" troll (you can safely ignore > those). > yes it is, just search a bit to know what "inactive" memory in FreeBSD is.
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