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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.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!news.nl.innet.net!INnl.net!feed1.news.erols.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!194.87.0.28!demos!Gamma.RU!srcc!news.phys.msu.su!news.free.net!news.nask.pl!uw.edu.pl!ict.pwr.wroc.pl!news.apk.net!not-for-mail From: droberts@apk.net (Dan Roberts) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: memory allocation problem Date: 8 Dec 1996 10:41:26 GMT Organization: Akademia Pana Kleksa, Public Access Uni* Site Lines: 14 Message-ID: <58e60m$pg8@nerd.apk.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: junior.apk.net X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] I run an irc server on a FreeBSD 2.1.5 box.. after I boot up, the machine will run nicely for the first day or two, then all of a sudden, the free mem starts dropping. After about 4-6 days, I'll be down to about 1k free, 10MB of cache mem, 6MB wired (whetever the heck that is), and something like 5MB buffers.. 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? Anyone know what I can do about this? -- Dan Roberts (droberts@apk.net/strahd@dal.net) - http://apk.net/~droberts Sysadmin/IRC Admin - barovia.dal.net - http://multiverse.com/barovia DALnet Help Committee - Strahd on DALnet /server irc.dal.net 7000