Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 17:28:18 -0700 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mem Use Message-ID: <200105040028.f440SoI16925@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 03 May 2001 15:08:18 PDT." <20010503150818.A8914@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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All this talk of memory utilisation reminds me to ask, are there any plans to implement directio (Solaris UFS and VxFS have it)? Any plans to implement priority paging, e.g. not cache files in memory when memory is tight to reduce demand for paging? Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/Alpha Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC In message <20010503150818.A8914@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>, Brooks Davis writes: > > --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 05:01:11PM -0500, Ramon A Hermon wrote: > > So why put all this? Because I think something is terribly wrong. > > The box has 256MB of RAM but as I look at the memory utilization > > all the RAM is used and swap may go to 1%(total swap 515MB) Even after > > closing the apps my mem does not come down. No errors are reported :( > > Is that a memory leak? > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#TOP-FREEMEM > > Free memory is wasted possiable cache so freebsd doesn't randomly throw > things out of memory. > > -- Brooks > > --=20 > Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. > PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 > > --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j > Content-Type: application/pgp-signature > Content-Disposition: inline > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > iD8DBQE68dbRXY6L6fI4GtQRAunBAJ9ehVXsEiqzWeI9DzHatEYXpCGosgCgxd04 > 7hLm8TqtkabgRPn00aYBMmw= > =ggJx > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j-- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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