[OpenIndiana-discuss] Memory drains away....

Rob McMahon RobMcMahonCV at gmail.com
Fri Nov 4 14:28:31 UTC 2011


On 04/11/2011 13:13, Daniel Kjar wrote:
> pmap seems to give me exactly what top tells me.
Remember top will almost always show low free memory.  Free memory is 
wasted memory, it gets filled by filesystem cache, zfs or otherwise, and 
re-used when needed.  Look at e.g. `vmstat 5' to look for memory issues.

Rob

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