>On 2002-12-16 20:30, aSe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Lately I've seem tobe looseing a large amount of memory, I was at
>> 180M free, now its down to ~45M. I know Inact = inactive, but what
>> would cause large amounts of inactive memory to be 'used'? I went
>> down the list of top and nothing comes close to adding up to 300m.
>
>This is answered in the FAQ already.  Point your favorite browser at:
>http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.html#TOP-FREEMEM
>
>> Also, if its inactive memory, isn't that the same as free?
>
>No.  A lot of things about the way memory management works in FreeBSD
>is explained in the excellent article ``Design elements of the FreeBSD
>VM system'' by Matt Dillon.  Find it at:
>http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/vm-design/
>
>- Giorgos

Strange, I remember looking at the faq, guess I'm an idiot. Thank you for the help! :)



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