8-CURRENT: where is my memory?

2011-04-07 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, I'm running 8-CURRENT in a VM with 3000 MByte RAM: $ dmesg | fgrep memory real memory = 3145728000 (3000 MB) avail memory = 3062030336 (2920 MB) VMware memory control driver initialized but top(1) shows only: Mem: 429M Active, 245M Inact, 190M Wired, 83M Cache, 112M Buf, 197M Free

Re: 8-CURRENT: where is my memory?

2011-04-07 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thursday 07 Apr 2011 11:58:50 Matthias Apitz wrote: VMware memory control driver initialized Could this have removed a block of memory for its own use outside of the normal VM subsystem? -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Where is the memory

2005-07-05 Thread scuba
. My problem is that I think something in the system is allocating memory and not releasing it. The same applications used to run on a Freebsd 4.7 BOX with 1GB RAM, and only in some few cases had to swap out. Now, I´m moving to another machine with 2GB RAM, and I´m seeing where

Re: Where is the memory

2005-07-05 Thread Chuck Swiger
applications used to run on a Freebsd 4.7 BOX with 1GB RAM, and only in some few cases had to swap out. Now, I´m moving to another machine with 2GB RAM, and I´m seeing where is the extra memory. I expected to have more free memory now. Free memory is wasted memory. -- -Chuck

Re: Where is the memory

2005-07-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
. Now, I?m moving to another machine with 2GB RAM, and I?m seeing where is the extra memory. I expected to have more free memory now. Free memory is wasted memory. When something needs it, it will be reallocated from other areas. This is a FAQ. Kris pgpz9mPbOHgst.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Where is the memory

2005-07-05 Thread scuba
On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Chuck Swiger wrote: |[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |[ ... ] | My problem is that I think something in the system is allocating | memory and not releasing it. | |The kernel will attempt to use all but a little RAM reserved as free space to |cache stuff from disk, unless and

Re: Where is the memory

2005-07-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Chuck Swiger wrote: |[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |[ ... ] |My problem is that I think something in the system is allocating | memory and not releasing it. | |The kernel will attempt to use all but a little RAM reserved as free space to

Re: Where is the memory

2005-07-05 Thread Chuck Swiger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Chuck Swiger wrote: [ ... ] It seems that this is the case. I wrote a small program to allocate a large block of memory (more them that shown as free) and the system doesn´t swap. Nor should it. Simply allocating memory doesn't actually

Where is the memory

2005-07-04 Thread scuba
Hi, How can I track where/who is using the system memory? I have a 2GB (RAM) system running Freebsd 5.4, basically as a mail gateway. After a few hours up, TOP shows me about 300MB of free memory. No swap yet. But the sum of RSS column of ps axum, gives me about

Re: Where is the memory

2005-07-04 Thread Hornet
In top, if you type in u it will prompt you for an account which you can monitor the processes and mem. Of course, this will not work for apps that are opened under different credentials. On 7/4/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, How can I track where/who is using the