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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sun4nl!Utrecht.NL.net!news.iaf.nl!news.es.iaf.nl!yedi!wilko From: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte) Subject: Re: FreeBSD a memory hog ? Keywords: FreeBSD, memory usage Organization: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands Message-ID: <Dp98I4.22E@yedi.iaf.nl> References: <dkleinh.828415914@isotope.ps.uci.edu> Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 21:46:51 GMT Lines: 17 dkleinh@isotope.ps.uci.edu (Dirk Kleinhesselink) writes: > I am running FreeBSD 2.1 on a P-100 with 16MB ram and 16MB swap. When I >run netscape, after awhile, netscape is killed by the kernel with the message >that the swap space is exhausted. I also have Linux and I have never had >netscape crash due to insufficient memory on Linux. I have the same amount >of swap when I run Linux and about the same number of processes. I thought >FreeBSD had better memory management than Linux. I used to run Linux with >only 8-MB ram and never had it kill netscape. Where is all the memory going ? The memory is going to the memory hog called Netscape. If I remember correctly Linux has a sort of lazy swap allocation meaning that you would have had 16Mb RAM + 16Mb swap = 32 Mb virtual with Linux. FreeBSD has virtual == swap space when I'm not mistaken. Wilko