Re: FreeBSD & Memory Free

From: Alistair Riddell <alistair@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 20:52:57 +0100 (BST)

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?

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