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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.indiana.edu!news From: jfieber@indiana.edu (John Fieber) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: memory allocation problem Date: 8 Dec 1996 18:45:11 GMT Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington Lines: 11 Sender: jfieber@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu Message-ID: <58f2bn$br2@dismay.ucs.indiana.edu> References: <58e60m$pg8@nerd.apk.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: fallout.campusview.indiana.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 In article <58e60m$pg8@nerd.apk.net>, droberts@apk.net (Dan Roberts) writes: > Why is everything being allocated to cache?? It works fine as if it were > actually free. Seems to reallocate well, but why does it do it in the > first place? Because "free" memory is wasted resource. FreeBSD tries to make the best use of all available memory. When it isn't needed for active processes, it gets used for other things like cache. -john