On Jan 13, 2005, at 2:01 PM, Colin J. Raven wrote:
I'm wondering seriously about this top output:
(2.6 GhZ Celeron 1GB RAM)
Mem: 52M Active, 316M Inact, 134M Wired, 111M Buf, 494M Free Swap: 2023M Total, 2023M Free
This does add up to the 1GB of memory that my 5.3-RELEASE box has, that's not my question. I always understood in FreeBSD that "Free Memory is wasted memory"
I compared this to the 5.3-RELEASE box of a colleague.
AMD Athlon (1800-something-or-other) also 1GB RAM
Mem: 467M Active, 224M Inact, 201M Wired, 33M Cache, 111M Buf, 71M Free Swap: 4096M Total, 1672K Used, 4094M Free
Other than the fact that swap doesn't add up (or doesn't seem to) the box of my colleague seems to have a more "sensible" (classic) amount of free memory.
Is there something I can do in order to "optimize" - which in this case paradoxically would seem to mean "reduce" the amount of free memory?
Regards & TIA, -Colin
Colin,
If you want to be made fun of, this is the type of question that will push you in that direction (references 'Thanks You!' thread). ;) Your colleague is probably running more applications/services than you, which is why he has less available memory. To use up some of that memory, simply start up some more applications.
:) have a nice day! _______________________________________________________ Eric F Crist "I am so smart, S.M.R.T!" Secure Computing Networks -Homer J Simpson
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