Free memory is wasted memory. Under most Unixes, memory not in use by
applications is used for caching disk reads/writes.
On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Mark Dabrowski wrote:
> This has been bugging me for a while:
>
> Squid 1.1.22 on FreeBSD 2.2.6 with 256MB RAM and 3 GIG cache_swap
>
> After machine is rebooted and squid starts it takes aproximately 2 hours to
> get the Free Memory go below 1 MB. It just keeps decreasing as squid takes
> requests.
>
> Then memory stays at aproximately 784K and squid keeps running. It can run
> for 3 days without any problems. Any ideas?
-- Alistair Riddell - BOFH IT Support Department, George Watson's College, Edinburgh Tel: +44 131 447 7931 Ext 176 Fax: +44 131 452 8594 Microsoft - because god hates usReceived on Tue Aug 18 1998 - 12:54:10 MDT
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