[format recovered, please don't top post to the list] On 30/08/2006 21:05, Jordi Carrillo wrote: >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Jason Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: 30/08/2006 16:52 >> Subject: Re: Install then reboot >> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> >> On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 07:58:58PM +0200, Jordi Carrillo wrote: >>> When I compile a new program from ports, freebsd takes quite a lot of >>> RAM. >>> Is that something right or it's a flaw? It does happen to you? The main >>> problem is that not all memory used in compilation is freed, so it can be >> a >>> problem (meaning rebooting) after compiling a very big software such as >>> openoffice or gnome. >> >> How much memory FreeBSD uses when installing a port usually depends on >> the port. However, how are you determining that the memory is not >> freed up after the port is done installing? Are you running into >> situation where a huge percentage of your ram is being used during the >> build process, which then forces the system to swap *after* the >> install is complete? If you are determining the amount of free ram by >> simply looking at top(1), and the system is not swapping, then I don't >> think you have an issue. FreeBSD will free up the memory when it needs >> it. >> >> Cheer, >> Jason > > In fact when compiling, freebsd uses lots of RAM, but then when finished, I > don't see it frees the memory used. I see the ram consumption from the > gnome > system monitor. In any case, I have not payed a lot of attention since I > haven't reach the point where freebsd has the need to use swap. > Thanks anyway,
Basically, "free memory is wasted memory". It's in the FAQ: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#TOP-FREEMEM Regards, Karol -- Karol Kwiatkowski <freebsd at orchid dot homeunix dot org> OpenPGP: http://www.orchid.homeunix.org/carlos/gpg/0x06E09309.asc
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