Re: RAM/Memory resources on 7 STABLE

2009-01-17 Thread Tim Kellers
David Scheidt wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 01:25:19AM +, RW wrote: On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:23:06 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: When I boot this machine it usually shows (in top) about 11 G Free in the Mem: line The machine, in this snippet,

Re: RAM/Memory resources on 7 STABLE

2009-01-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Tim Kellers kell...@njit.edu writes: My Machine: Dell 2850 PE w/ 12 GB of Ram www# uname -a FreeBSD www 7.1-STABLE FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE #2: Tue Jan 6 19:24:57 EST 2009 r...@www:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DELL64 amd64 When I boot this machine it usually shows (in top) about 11 G Free in the

Re: RAM/Memory resources on 7 STABLE

2009-01-16 Thread RW
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:35:33 -0500 Tim Kellers kell...@njit.edu wrote: I've never noticed this (the slow decline of Free) before on any machine I've had. Maybe that just means it has happened and I haven't noticed it, but I don't know. FreeBSD has worked like that for a long time, it

Re: RAM/Memory resources on 7 STABLE

2009-01-16 Thread Tim Kellers
Thanks to all who responded. I am familiar with the FAQ and what it says about memory handling. This is my first time with installed RAM over 8 Gig in an AMD environment so I was just making sure there wasn't something going on that looked odd to anyone else. Tim RW wrote: On Fri, 16 Jan

Re: RAM/Memory resources on 7 STABLE

2009-01-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
When I boot this machine it usually shows (in top) about 11 G Free in the Mem: line The machine, in this snippet, has been up for 5 days 22 hours and change and it now shows 1436M free in the Mem: line I've been watching the number and it has been slowly decreasing over the 5 days since its

Re: RAM/Memory resources on 7 STABLE

2009-01-16 Thread RW
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:23:06 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: When I boot this machine it usually shows (in top) about 11 G Free in the Mem: line The machine, in this snippet, has been up for 5 days 22 hours and change and it now shows 1436M free in the

Re: RAM/Memory resources on 7 STABLE

2009-01-16 Thread David Scheidt
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 01:25:19AM +, RW wrote: On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:23:06 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: When I boot this machine it usually shows (in top) about 11 G Free in the Mem: line The machine, in this snippet, has been up for 5

Re: RAM/Memory resources on 7 STABLE

2009-01-16 Thread RW
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:14:10 -0500 David Scheidt dsche...@panix.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 01:25:19AM +, RW wrote: Although, looking at the output of top, most of the memory is in the inactive state. As I understand it cache pages go from active to cached, and the inactive