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Date:      Wed, 24 Jun 1998 08:50:34 +1200 (NZST)
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>
To:        User Measl <measl@greeves.mfn.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Memory Leak in 2.2.5R NFS
Message-ID:  <Pine.SGI.3.96.980624084836.10103C-100000@tui.pinnacle.co.nz>
In-Reply-To: <199806231759.MAA04220@greeves.mfn.org>

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On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, User Measl wrote:

> I am determining usage through TOP.  Also, AFAIK, the kernel does
> *not* "eat up as much memory as possible for buffers".  I believe
> that is a Windoze trait...  According to the Handbook, there is
> an actual (somewhat fixed) algorithm to determine RAM capture.
> 
> But then, who knows, I could be wrong...

The question has been asked before, and while my answer is somewhat
simplistic, it's essentially correct.

The mail archives has quite a few answers by John Dyson on this; try
the search on `questions':

	memory AND john AND dyson

Cheers.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>
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